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olive shade. Sides similarly blackish. Lower surface, including 
all of head below, belly and most of tail basally, soiled pale 
brown, soilings dusky or smutty-brown, and scattered over entire 
surface. In fact, greater part of tail, or outer 34 nearly, smutty- 
brown entirely on under surface. Lips brownish. Interorbital 
space brownish. Feet, hands and limbs dusky-brown above, 
below paler and soiled like belly. Iris slaty. Length 3°/,., 
inches. Described from an example obtained along Big Timber 
Creek near Clement’s Bridge, in Camden County, by Mr. J. A. G. 
Rehn. 
Very many others were examined from Morris County (C. 
Fisher), and Trenton (Dr. C.C. Abbott). Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads 
has also found it at Swartzwood Lake in Warren County. Mr. 
H. L. Viereck has taken it at the above mentioned locality along 
Big Timber Creek. Mr. T. D. Keim, Dr. C. C. Abbott and my- 
self found it under stones in the beds of affluents to Kinkora 
Creek, and southeast of Bordentown, during the past October. 
The largest adult seen in the water was dull brown speckled with 
darker on the back. Small larve were also seen in the water. 
Very great range in color-pattern and color-variation may be 
noted in this species. Young an inch long have the pale area on 
the back more or less immaculate pink or pale brown. The upper- 
most of the accompanying figures indicates this type. They vary 
from these shades into the dusky-black adults. Also they do not 
always appear to change from pinkish to brown, as some with 
pink backs are found equally as large as the larger brownish 
ones. The pale colors of the back are also not always immacu- 
late, many being variously blotched or speckled with darker or 
brownish. Very dark or blackish examples, not larger than the 
largest pink or brown ones also occur, though these all show 
traces to some extent of the dorsal color-patterns. Most all full- 
grown examples lose every trace of the dorsal color-pattern in 
the blackish of the back. Perhaps the most abundant in indi- 
viduals among cold-blooded vertebrates in some localities is this 
little salamander. In the upland it is found nearly everywhere 
in the valleys, about and in streams, and on the comparatively 
dry mountain-tops, though less numerous and more solitary 
