472 HISTORY OF 



vittatus 'J^gartersnake : C. punctatus; greenish orange below, 

 a light ring around the neck: C, amoeniis; light brown with: 

 violet rellexions, head very small: C. eximins; house-snake, 

 Tlie above species arc at present included in several "-enera, 

 Heterodon platirhinus ; viper, harmless. Trigonoccphalus 

 contortrix ; copperhead. 



Sauria — Lizards. 

 Tropidolepis undulatus; inhabits woods, brown, mottled, 

 scales very rough, tail long, active, innoxious. Scincus fascia- 

 tus ; back with 5 yellow stripes, tail blue. 



AMPHIBIA. 



Ranapipiens; bullfrog: R, halccina ; shadfrog, green with 

 black spots : R. sylvatica; woodfrog, reddish brown, 2 inches: 

 R, palustris; brown, with rows of square dark brown spots, 3 

 inches: R. gryllus; 1 incli long. Jlyla versicolor; treefrog, 

 treetoad. Bufo Americanus ; toad. Salaniandra erytlironota; 

 S. cinereain: woods, under logs and stoiics: S. longicauda : 

 S. maculalal S. fasciata] S. venenosal 



PISCES— Fishes. 



Of the fifty species of this class which are probably found 

 in our waters, we arc not prepared to give a complete list, as 

 we iiave not yet compared the greater part of our specimens 

 with authentic individuals from other states ; and we are there- 

 fore in doubt as to the names they ouglitto bear. This remark 

 applies particularly to tiie species first made known by Dr. 

 Mitchill, and which were found in iho waters of New York. 



The several diims in tlie Susquehanna, have nearly cut off 

 the supply of the .shad, so important an article in domestic 

 economy, until a recent period, tliat families witliin twenty 

 miles of the fisheries, thought it impossible to pass through a 

 season unsupplicd willi a barrel of salted shad. 



Fishing is not conducted upon an extensive scale at present, 

 the bcinc being employed for tiie shad and herring alone. The 



