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the subject, may share in the investigations and 

 thereby render as complete as possible the detailed 

 account on this salamander to be published later. 

 Geo. P. Engelhardt, 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



WINTER ACTIVITY OF AMBLYSTOMA 

 PUNCTATUM, BAIRD 



At noon, Dec. 23, 1911, Manchester, Maine, 1 

 found a medium-sized adult crawling on the snow. 

 A warm rain had fallen the night before, but it had 

 cleared off warm and the mercury stood at 4-2 

 degrees F. at the time. There was about three inches 

 of snow left on the ground. 



The place was on the south slope of a hill in 

 open pasture, about one-eighth of a mile from a little 

 swampy stream. The animal had evidently come 

 from this stream but I doubt if it was going to any 

 definite place, for it was crawling towards a ridge 

 of high land where there was no open water within a 

 quarter mile. 



Probably the warm weather had aroused it from 

 hibernation, but why it should have started off across 

 country on the snow is not so clear. 



Philip H. Pope, 

 Manchester, Maine. 



GREEN FROG ACTIVE IN DECEMBER 



On December 18th, 191.5, I saw a full grown 

 green frog {liana clamitans) hopping along the 

 edge of Swan Creek pond, one mile east of Patch- 

 oque, N. Y. It was somewhat sluggish in its move- 

 ments, and I readily caught it. There were no exca- 

 vations by which it could have been thrown up from 

 the mud. The day was warm and rainy, but there 

 had been a cold spell a few days previously. 



Wm. Sanwald, 

 Patchoque, N. Y. 



