Tilt: QIOANTIC <M.AMANDBR. 



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it J>\ tit.- seller. It live* in the lakes and pools that exist in tin- basaltic mountain ranges of 

 .l.ip.in. 



I>r. \..n Si, -U, M Li-ought the first living >-]H-, im.-n t.. Kurope, and placed It in a tank 

 at !>>.!. -n. when- it wa.s li\iim when tin- lust accounts were heard, having thiin paimnd a period 

 of many years in captivity. It.s length is about a yard. Two specimens were brought over at 

 the sum.' time, I- iiii; if dtfhMBl I X' -. t n on te pBH^pV, ' 9tlt unfortuiwteh kill-! m.| 

 at.- hi- int.-nded bride, leaving himself to j.uss the remainder of his life in celibacy. It 

 fed chieth mi fish, luit would eat other animal substance. 



Another tine s|Nvimcn attracted miirh notice in -pit.- of its ugliness and almost total want 

 of observable habits. It i- \,.|-y slui^i-h and ret inn-, hating t!i<- light, and always squeezing 

 itaelf into the darkest corner nf its tank, wht-n- ii s<> i-losely resembles in color the rock-work 

 near which it shelters itself, that many persons look at the tank without e\i-n ili-.-.iv.-rin^ it 

 pCMence. The length of this s|N<ciineti is aUmt ilni'v tl.i.-.- in< !.-. :m>l if ii survives, ii m:i> 

 pomibly attain even a larger size. The -|.-.-inien shown in the engraving on next page is 

 reduced to one- fifth of it.s natural 





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The head of this creature is large, flattened, and very toad-like in general aspect, except that 

 it is not furnished with the beautiful eyes which redeem the otherwise repulsive expression of 

 the toad. The head is about four inches wide at the broadest part, and is covered with innumer- 

 able warty excrescences. The eyes are extremely small, placed on the fore part of the head, 

 and without the least approach to expression, looking more like small gloss beads than eyes. 



The whole upper part of the body is covered thickly with excrescences, and even the 

 tuuler part of the rounded toes are studded with little tul>ercles. which can be plainly seen 

 with a magnifying lens as the creature presses its feet again-t the gloss wall of its tank. 

 Despite of its sluggish nature, it is quite able to obtain its own subsistence by rat chine 

 the fish on which it feeds, and the keeper told me that even in captivity it easily catches the 

 fish that are put into its tank. On the journey, it was mostly f--l ujon e-ls. and at the present 

 time it eats eels as well as other fish, provided they are rather small. 



It is well to mention casually in this place that the human-looking skeleton, discovered at 

 (Eningen in 1 720. and long supposed to be the fossil skeleton of a man who had perished in 

 the delude, i- nothing more than the bones of a huge Salamander, closely allied to the present 



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chocolate, and taking a lighter and more yellowish hue upon the under surface of the feet 

 vot. m-a. 



