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*45. Salamandra symmetrica, Harlan, Stratford. 



*46. Salamandra erythronota, Green, Red-backed Salamander, 

 common. 



# 47. Salamandra bilineata, Green, Striped Salamander, Orange. 



*48. Salamandra subviolacea, Barton, Violet-colored Salaman- 

 der, Huntington and Northford. 



*49. Salamandra salmonea, Storer, Salmon-colored Salaman- 

 der, Stonington. « 



*50. Salamandra millepunctata, Storer, Many-dotted Salaman- 

 der, Stratford. 



the same species. The whole race of salamanders, as far as I have discovered, 

 are not only perfectly harmless, but exhibit no signs of resistance when taken in 

 the hand, except a great desire to escape. 



*45. In many respects there is a great resemblance between the symmetrica and 

 the millepunctata, though sufficient difference to characterize the species. It is 

 found from Maine to Florida, as appears by different authors. 



*46. The red-backed salamander is the most common of any of the species in 

 Connecticut. I find it in nearly every town where I have visited and searched 

 for Helices and Pupas, under decaying logs and stones. This animal is usually 

 found with the Helix arhorea. 



*47. Of the striped salamander I have taken a specimen in the town of Orange, 

 found under bark with Helix monodon, that answers well to Holbrook's description. 

 The tail is more slender and longer in proportion to the whole length of the ani- 

 mal than that of the preceding species. Still I should not be surprised to find it 

 eventually considered only a variety of the red-back. 



*48. I have taken one specimen of the violet-colored salamander at Huntington, 

 and received another from my brother at Northford, both of which correspond well 

 with Dr. Dekay's and Dr. Holbrook's figures and descriptions as well as size. I 

 have also another specimen seven and a half inches in length from the town of 

 Trumbull, that differs very essentially from the other two. It was sent to me by 

 Dr. E. Middlebrook in alcohol, into which it had been recently placed. It was 

 found in company with several others which were said to be much larger. On 

 this the spots are large, distinct, regular, and nearly parallel through the whole 

 length of the back. I have seen no figure like it in any of the books except Ca- 

 tesby's (of 1772) on "the Natural History of Georgia, Florida, and the Bahama 

 Islands." In that work (p. 110, fig. 2) is represented his " Stellio aquaticus minor 

 Jlmericanus," in the bill of a crane that answers very nearly to my animal with 

 some slight differences in number of spots on the tail. His animal, however, was 

 but five inches long — only two thirds the length of mine. 



Although Barton's specific name ofvenenosa has the priority for this species, it 

 is so inappropriate, his subsequent name adopted by Dr. Holbrook is preferred. 



*49. Of the salmon-colored salamander, Mr. J. H. Trumbull of Stoninglon has 

 taken a specimen this season, as he informed me by letter. 



*50. The many-dotted salamander, erroneously considered by some naturalists 

 the dorsalis of Harlan, is not very rare. I took five or six individuals as late in the 

 season as November last, under pieces of timber on the borders of a pond, and sent 

 two to Dr. Storer for the Boston Society of Natural History, and two to Mr. Coz- 

 zens, of the New York Lyceum of Natural History . It has also been taken at Ston- 



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