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specimen was for a year in this speckled olive-green stage, when it is 
essentially a water animal, although it is capable of living out of the 
water, and sometimes appears to take pleasure in basking high and dry. 
Its peculiar and very decided amphibious nature made it even more 
interesting from a biological point of view than any of its congeners 
among our batrachians. He described its manner of catching a strug- 
gling fly when thrown on the surface of the water, while a dead or 
motionless fly would not be touched ; its swallowing of small fibres of 
fresh meat when hungry, when it might be fed from a splinter of wood 
to which the fibres were made to adhere. He referred to the deserip- 
tion of a specimen by Harry Piers, before the Institute, 14th March, 
1892, as given in the Transactions of the Institute, Vol. vim, page 183. 
He then discussed the distribution of the otner batrachian relatives 
of the Newt in the Atlantic Provinces, and gave the following list as 
the species known to belong to the Province, on good authority. In 
the museum of the Pictou Academy there were specimens of all the 
reptilia and batrachia of the list except the Wood Tortoise, which was 
given on the authority of Mr. Jones, in a paper already referred to. 
BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
[Nomenclature of Jordan’s Manual of the Invertebrates, 1888. ] 
Class—BATRACHIANS. Class—REPTILES. 
Order—Salamanders. Order—Serpents 
1, Amblystoma pun-tatum (L). 1. Storeria occipitomaculata (Stor). 
(Yellow-spotted Salamander). (Red-Bellied Snake). 
2. Plethodon erythronotus (Green). 2. Eutainia sirtalis (L). 
(Red-backed Salamander). (Common Garter Snake) 
3. ? (Blackish sp.) Liopeltis vernalis (DeKay). 
Order—Newis. (Grass Snake). 
3. Diemyctylus viridescens (Raf). Bascanion constrictor (L). 
(Red Eft, or Vermillion-spotted (Black Snake). 
Olive-Back Newt). Diadophis punctatus (L). 
Order—Toads and Frogs. (Ring-necked! Snake), 
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4. Bufo lentiginosus (Shaw). ina 
(American Toad). . Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli). 
5. Hyla versicolor (Le Conte). (Leather Turtle). 
(Common Tree Toad). 7. Chelydra serpentina (L). 
6. Hyla Pickeringii (Holbrook). (Snapping Turtle). 
(Pickering’s Tree Toad). 8. Chrysemys picta (Hermann), 
7. Rana viresceus (Kalm). (Painted Turtle). 
(Leopard Frog). 9. Chelopus insculptus (Le Conte), 
8. Rana sylvatica (Le Conte). (Wood Tortoise). 
(Wood Frog). 
9. Rana clamata (Daudin). 
(Green Frog). 
10. Rana Catesbiana (Shaw). 
(Bull-Frog). 
