30 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
explanation seems to be possible to me for some of the cases 
met with, as they will often all occur under the same conditions. 
Possibly during my extended local work in ichthyology I may 
be able to find opportunity to offer more important data. As 
should have been stated before, most all of the information which 
I have gathered in the direction of this work was made during 
the numerous fishing excursions into different parts of the 
state. I have, however, at different times made some interesting 
observations, and hope in the future to make others. ‘The con- 
clusion of this report will then place what I have been able to 
gather of the living cold-blooded vertebrate fauna of New 
Jersey. 
FAUNAL WORKS. 
Though the earlier works on herpetology, such as those of 
Beauvois, Green, Harlan and Holbrook, frequently contain 
accounts of New Jersey amphibians and reptiles, their more gen- 
eral nature forbids their consideration as restricted to the State. 
I have, however, located all the New Jersey references under 
each species where found. Most of the early papers of Cope 
and others are also of more or less similar nature, and have been 
treated in the same way. 
CHARLES CONRAD ABBOTT. 
. 1869. Catalogues of Vertebrate Animals of New Jersey. <Geology of 
New Jersey, 1868. Appendix. Reptiles and Amphibians, pp. 799-805. 
This is the first attempt to give an annotated account of the 
amphibians and reptiles of the state. Like the other departments 
embraced, it is only a list of the species, with notes on their 
abundance and habits, etc., which, in most cases, were based 
on the author’s own observations. The identifications were 
given largely by Cope. The work is also attended with the 
unfortunate uncorrected proof, as in the case of the fishes. 
1882. Notes on the habits of the “Savannah Cricket Frog.” <American 
Naturalist, XVI, 1882 (September), pp. 707-711. 
