82 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
Description. Snout blunt and rounded. Gular fold distinct. Nostrils small, nearer the 
snout than to the eyes. Eyes large, prominent and distant. Fore legs 0°38 long, slender, 
four-toed ; the two middle ones longest, subequal. Hind feet more robust, 0°4 long, five- 
toed. Tail plump and rounded when alive, and continuous with the body, tapering toa blunt 
point. In spirits, the tail appears compressed, ancipital. 
Color. Above, polished, plumbaginous ; towards the end of the snout, marbled with ash. 
Neck and body sprinkled with numerous irregular minute transparent bluish spots, and a series 
of rather larger ones along the body; in spirits, these become ash-colored. Upper edge of 
the tail with a similar series of large transparent bluish spots, extending sometimes to its 
extremity. Head and body beneath paler. Avxilla of the anterior extremities whitish. Toes 
annulate with dusky and pale flesh-color. 
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Of body from the vent; ca2--20--- 0°80 
The specimens from which the above description was drawn, were procured by Mr. I. Coz- 
zens from dry elevated grounds near this city. It is to be observed that this species, which 
when alive had a rounded cylindrical and tapering tail, in spirits the same part became com- 
pressed and edged above and beneath. This should lead to great caution in receiving descrip- 
tions of species of this family, drawn up from cabinet specimens. 
The Blue-spotted Salamander appears to be allied in a measure to the nigra, as far as we 
judge by the brief description of Green. I am inclined to suspect S. jeffersoni of the same 
author to be a variety of this species. It sometimes is found six inches long. It has been 
observed from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, and also in Ohio. 
(EXTRA-LIMITAL,) 
S. cirrigera. (Hotsroox, N. Am. Herp. Vol. 5, plate.) Yellow speckled with white; two short 
fleshy cirri above the upper lip; a black line on each side, edged with white. Length three inches. 
Louisiana. An Var. S. bilineata ? 
S. sinciput-albida. (Green, Ac. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 352.) Above dusky ferruginous; beneath yellowish ; 
nose white. ‘Tail short, thick, tapering, shorter than the body. Lengththree inches. New-Jersey. 
S. fusca. (Ip. Ib.) Yellowish brown; beneath white, with a line on each side of black spots. Tail 
slightly compressed, as long as the body. Length three inches. New-Jersey. 
S. guttolineata. (Hoxrsroox, Herp. Vol. 2, pl. 12; and Vol. 5, 2d Ed.) Straw-colored, with a verte- 
bral line of black bifurcating behind the occiput; a lateral black band, in which is a row of white 
spots, and beneath this a white line. Length six or seven inches. Carolina. 
S. auriculata. (Iv. Tb. Vol. 3, pl. 28; and Vol. 5, 2d Ed.) Dusky brown; greyish with minute spots 
beneath, and a series of small reddish brown spots on each side; a reddish brown spot behind the 
place of the ear. Length five inches. Georgia. 
