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water is piped for a ranch house below. This pool 

 is not more than two feet in depth, four feet long 

 and three feet wide. It is covered with boards and 

 is surrounded by much damp disintegrated granite, 

 rich loam and leaves from shady oak-trees above. 



Between the boards and underneath, within 

 three feet of one another, I found — on May 31st, 

 1915 — the four different salamanders known to exist 

 in the vicinity of Los Angeles. They were : Diemyc- 

 tylus torosus, commonly known as the "Water-dog." 

 Autodax lugiibris, Plethodon oregonensis,, and 

 Batrachoseps attenuatus. 



The "Water-dogs" were plentiful and included 

 young without gills and adults of full size. Alto- 

 gether there were about twenty of them which lived 

 in and about the pool. 



One Autodax lugubris lay coiled between the 

 damp boards, beneath which a pretty specimen of 

 Plethodon oregonensis lay on a wet rock near the 

 water's edge. At one side, on damp earth beneath 

 a rock, hid a Batrachoseps attenuatus. The three sal- 

 amanders last mentioned were all adult. 



This is the second specimen of Plethodon ore- 

 gonensis that has come under my observation during 

 the last three years. This is the first time I have 

 known of the four Los Angeles Salamanders having 

 been found in one place or even in one day. 



A few weeks later, a visit in hotter and dryer 

 weather showed only "Water-dogs," to be in evidence 

 at the same place, although I had left the salamand- 

 ers, boards and rocks as I had found them. 



Paul Ruthling, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



LIST OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS 

 FROM CLARK COUNTY, VA. 



I spent August 2-14, 1915, on the Shenandoah 

 River at White Horse, two miles above Berry's Fer- 



