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, 1 • 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 grounds 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. jeffersoni 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 with 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 white, with a line on each side of black spots. Tail 

 shghtly compressed, as long as the body. Length three inches. Ncw-Jcrsey. 



S. gntlolineata. (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. 



