Number 126 July 10, 1922 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Published by the University 



DISCOVERY OF THE EGGS OF THE FOUR-TOED 

 SALAMANDER IN MICHIGAN 



By Frank N. Blanchard 



Even before the publication of Mr. S. C. Bishop's excel- 

 lent paper on the habits and development of Hcmidactylium 

 scutatum (Schlegel)/ it had been the present author's hope 

 to find the eggs of this "rare" salamander in Michigan. 

 Adults and immature individuals had been found in several 

 localities, chiefly in the autumn, however, on account of lack 

 of time and facilities for spring collecting and because the 

 salamanders are easier to find at the former season in the 

 situations most hunted, i. c, beneath old logs and wood in 

 terrestrial habitats adjacent to swampy areas. 



In one such place, in Lima Township, Washtenaw County, 

 adults and half-grown individuls had been taken under logs 

 on several occasions in the autumn. Here a small piece of 

 oak woods occupies an uneven ground adjacent to a wet grass- 



1 New York State Mus. Bull., Nos. 219, 220, 15th Rep. of the Direc- 

 tor for 1918, 1920, pp. 251-282. 



