the chipmunk was towards the snake's head, and its 

 legs, tail and fur all lay back toward the snake's tail, 

 smooth and in perfect order. This surprised us very 

 much. We could hardly see how the chipmunk could 

 go down tail first without turning the tail, or some 

 of the legs, or the fur, the other way. We could 

 scarcely believe our own eyes ; some of the party were 

 even disposed to grant there had been an error in ob- 

 servation. But as all members of the party (there 

 were six or seven of them ) were agreed as to the fact, 

 it is evident that this chipmunk had been swallowed 

 tail first. 



A few days later Dr. J. Grinnell sent me a pho- 

 tograph taken August 1, 1914, by Mr. Edward R. 

 Warren of Colorado Springs, which showed a gopher 

 snake in the act of swallowing a chipmunk tail first — 

 only the head of the chipmunk remained exposed. 

 Barton Warren Evermann, 



San Francisco, Cat. 



SOME AMPHIBIANS NEW TO WHITE- 

 FISH POINT, MICHIGAN 



During the summer of 11)14, the biological sur- 

 vey of the Whitetish Point region, Chippewa County, 

 Michigan, which is being made by the University of 

 Michigan Museum of Zoology,- was continued, and 

 additional data on the reptile-amphibian fauna were 

 secured. The three amphibians listed below were ob- 

 tained for the first time, and increased to sixteen the 

 total number of species known to occur in the region. 

 (See Ann. Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci., 1912, pp. 215- 

 217.) 



A m by stoma jeffersonian u m ( Green ) . — Found 

 under old logs at the edge of black ash and cedar 

 swamps. 



Diemictylus viridcsccns Rafinesque. — But one 

 specimen was obtained. This was found in a decayed 

 log at the edge of a marsh. 



Hyla pickeringii Holbrook. — Common in the 

 hardwood forests and tamarack swamps. 



Helen Thompson Gaige, 



Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



