PROCEEDINGS 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



[Formerly The Natural Science Association of Staten Island] 

 Vol. II February-May, 1908 Part II 



Notes on New Jersey Amphibians and Reptiles 1 



By William T. Davis 



The Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum for 

 1906 contains an interesting account of the amphibians and 

 reptiles of that state by Henry W. Fowler of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The report is well illus- 

 trated and evidently much care has been bestowed upon the text. 

 It is of particular interest to Staten Islanders as geographically 

 we form a part of the territory it aims to cover. 



Another paper on this subject appeared in the American 

 Naturalist for March, 1906, under the title of " Notes on Reptiles 

 and Batrachians of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware," 

 by Witmer Stone. The following notes may be of interest in 

 connection with these two publications. 



Amblystoma opacum (Gravenhorst). On September 15, 1907, 

 I found four of these salamanders at Lakehurst, N. J., in a small 

 barrel partly sunken in the ground on the edge of a pond. The 

 salamanders had fallen into the barrel and were unable to get 

 out again. This species has also been collected at Matchaponix 



1 Presented February 15, 1908. 



[Vol. II, Part I, pp. 1-46, was issued October 17, 1908.] 

 47 



