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NATURAL HISTORY. 



tongue. The teeth on the palate are in long series, and the mouth-gape is ample. The parotids are 

 very developed. The toes are free and smooth. 



This is a dweller on land in the adult state, and is found in Central Europe, in the mountainous 



SPOTTED SALAMANDER. 



districts of Southern Europe and North Africa. They haunt cool and damp places, such as fallen 

 timber and old walls, and they feed on insects, worms, and slugs. They hibernate in the winter, coiled 

 up in the crack of a wall, the hollow of a tree, or in the ground ; and during the spring and stimmer, 

 they shed their coat in shreds. 



The Black Salamander* is found in the high mountains of Central Germany, France, and Switzer- 



PLEUHODELES WALTLII. 



land, and it has of late years been studied in regaixl to its extraordinary viviparity. The young 

 undergo their metamorphoses in the body of the mother ; but only the lower eggs in the body are 

 hatched within, and the resulting Tadpoles appear to destroy the others. Mdlle. Marie de Chauvin, by 

 taking the young from the body before they were fully developed, and placing them in water, tried to 

 watch the changes of the Tadpole Salamander, but only in one instance did she succeed. In four days 



* Salamandra atra. 



