xlii PROCEEDINGS. 
The infatuation of the frog—a fine large Green Frog, (Rana clamata) 
it appeared to be—was shown by its always retreating to the water 
where it remained until closely pursued, when it sprang out in a leap or 
two to one side where it remained unconscious of any other presence, 
but very sensitive to the insidious approach of the snake who was so 
interested in its game that the presence of the slaughterer of its two 
colleagues was, apparently, a matter of no consequence. Owing to a 
mistaken observation that the frog had finally escaped and that the hunt 
was over, the snake was killed, when it was discovered that it was still 
stalking the frog and would have caught him or have forced him again 
into the pool. As the hunt continued for several minutes, a great many 
manoeuvres by land and water were observed. He referred to notes made 
on the habits of the same species as described in the Transactions of the 
Institute, Vol. 1, part 2, page 120, by J. M. Jones, May 2nd, 1865; 
Vol. Iv, page 81, by J. Bernard Gilpin, April, 1875 ; and Vol. 1v, page 
163, by John T. Mellish, May, 1876. 
After discussing the distribution of the Reptillia in the Atlantic 
Provinces, he gave tne appended list which briefly shows all the species 
known on good authority to be found within the Province of Nova 
Scotia. 
He next presented a living specimen of the Newt, (Diemyctylus 
viridescens ), which was examined by the members, swimming in water 
and moving on the table. It was one of a pair which had come the 
spring before from a lake in the county of Lunenburg, and the habits 
of which he had been studying for a year. The other, having been 
taken for some time with an apparent longing for the wide world 
beyond the horizon of its tank, which for some days before it was pen- 
sively gazing at from an island rock, must have made a leap or unusual 
reach, and escaped never to be seen again. He gave an outline of its 
history from the minute eggs deposited in spring on small leaves of 
water plants ; of its growth in the water, until in August or September 
it gradually changed into a red land salamander, left the water and 
hunted like a terrestrial animal, with air breathing apparatus and even 
a ciliated epithelial lining to its air passages. Until lately this stage 
used to be considered to be a species of salamander. Then, when 
mature, the ‘‘crimson eft” betakes itself to the water, changes its 
color to an olive green with a row of minute black-bordered vermilion 
spots on each side of its back. Its breathing apparatus again becomes 
adapted to the water, even the ciliated epithelia disappearing. The 
