82 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 



Description. Snout blunt and rounded. Gular fold distinct. Nostrils small, nearer the 

 snout than to the eyes. Eyes large, prominent and distant. Fore legs 0-38 long, slender, 

 four-toed; the two middle ones longest, subequal. Hind feet more robust, 0-4 long, five- 

 toed. Tail plump and rounded when alive, and continuous with the body, tapering to a blunt 

 point. In spirits, the tail appears compressed, ancipital. 



Color. Above, polished, plumbaginous ; towards the end of the snout, marbled with ash. 

 Neck and body sprinkled with numerous irregular minute transparent bluish spots, and a series 

 of rather larger ones along the body ; in spirits, these become ash-colored. Upper edge of 

 the tail with a similar series of large transparent bluish spots, extending sometimes to its 

 extremity. Head and body beneath paler. Axilla of the anterior extremities whitish. Toes 

 annulate with dusky and pale flesh-color. 



Length, r 80. 



Of tail, 0-75. 



Of body from the vent, 0-80. 



The specimens from which the above description was drawn, were procured by Mr. I. Coz- 

 zens from dry elevated gi'ounds near this city. It is to be observed that this species, which 

 when alive had a rounded cylindrical and tapering tail, in spirits the same part became com- 

 pressed and edged above and beneath. This should lead to great caution in receiving descrip- 

 tions of species of this family, drawn up from cabinet specimens. 



The Blue-spotted Salamander appears to be allied in a measure to the nigra, as far as we 

 judge by the brief description of Green. I am inclined to suspect S^. jejfersoni of the same 

 author to be a variety of this species. It sometimes is found six inches long. It has been 

 observed from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, and also in Ohio. 



(EXTRA LIMITAL.) 



S. cirrigera. (Holbrook, N. Am. Herp. Vol. 5, plate.) Yellow speckled %vith white; two short 

 fleshy cirri above the upper lip ; a black line on each side, edged with white. Length three inches. 

 Louisiana. An Var. S. bilineata ? 



S. sinciput-albida. (Green, Ac. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 352.) Above dusky ferruginous; beneath yellowish; 

 nose white. Tail short, thick, tapering, shorter than the body. Length three inches. New-Jersey. 



S.fusca. (Id. lb.) Yellowish brown ; beneath wliite, with a line on each side of black spots. Tail 

 slightly compressed, as long as the body. Length three inches. New-Jersey. 



S. guttolineata. (Holbrook, Herp. Vol 2, pi. 12; and Vol. 5, 2d Ed.) Straw-colored, with a verte- 

 bral line of black bifurcating behind the occiput ; a lateral black band, in which is a row of white 

 spots, and beneath this a white line. Length six or seven inches. Carolina. 



S. auriculata. (Id. lb. Vol. 3, pi. 28 ; and Vol. 5, 2d Ed.) Dusky brown ; greyish with minute spots 

 beneath, and a series of small reddish brown spots on each side ; a reddish brown spot behind the 

 place of the ear. Length five inches. Georgia. 



