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swimmers, but in captivity I noticed that they rested 

 with the nose held out of water. 



At the mouth of the stone drain, about 100 yards 

 from the spring, I found a larva three inches long, 

 and in the spring itself five more only on inch in 

 length, The large larva was probably a year old, 

 while the small ones appeared to be newly hatched. 

 In color they were a pale red with small yellowish 

 dots scattered along the back, but there is little pig- 

 ment in the skin and the whole animal is quite trans- 

 lucent. 



In the shape of the head, thread-like external 

 gills and general form these larva resemble those of 

 Spelerpes bilineatiis, but the color and markings are 

 quite different. 



Although this species seems to be quite abundant 

 about this one spring, I have found it nowhere else 

 in the vicinity. 



Philip H. Pope, 



Manchester, Maine. 



NUMBER OF YOUNG PRODUCED BY 

 COMMON SNAKES. 



Mr. J. F. Street informs me he dissected an adult 

 garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) in the fall of 1909, 

 obtained at Indiana, Pa. It contained 65 well-devel- 

 oped embryos. I saw an example of this species in 

 the Carnegie Museum, at Pittsburgh, some years 

 ago, from Ohio Pyle, Pa. It had a great number of 

 young which were given as 65. The largest water 

 snake (Natrix sipedon) I have examined, was ob- 

 tained by Evan Rhoads on Newton Creek, near 

 Mount Ephraim, Camden County, N. J., August 

 22, 1912. When fresh it was little short of five feet, 

 and contained over 70 young, (76 according to my 

 notes). I may add that a red-eared terrapin (Psen- 

 demys elegans) was captured in Oldmans Creek, N. 



