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specimens in a cave, although it is called the ‘* Cave salamander.’’? Found 
at Cliff Cave, St. Louis County, and Bluff Lake, St. Clair County, M1. 
FAMILY PLEURODELIDAE. 
Ze whoa poche Viridescens. (Raf.) Red Eit or New 
I first acquaintance with this very terete little animal on a 
shady aone of the bluffs near Bluff Lake, St. Clair County, 1. The animal 
was in its first stage, the terrestrial form known as D. Miniatus or Red Eft. 
A year after I captured the adult animal D. Viridescens or Newt with a dip 
net in the neighboring lake. I have caught them in all stages and came to 
the conclusion that they must be all one and the same animal. Thave taken 
a number of these small ** Red Efts ’? home and placed them in my aquarium, 
when I found that some of them went readily into the water, while others, 
generally the smallest or youngest ones of the lot, would climb out of the 
water in the corners of the aquarium and remain there until I forced them 
down again into the water, which, it seemed, did not agree with them as 
they died about a week after they were confined tothe aquarium. Of fifteen 
very stout, but it was not before the following spring that they commenced 
to develop into the adult or Viridescens form. year after they were putin 
the aquarium they mated and the female deposited her spawn against the 
glass plates where it was devoured by some young cat fish, Later in the fall 
the remaining specimens lost their nuptial appendages. The following 
spring they developed anew. 
Order Salientia. Tailless Batrachia. 
FaMILY BUFONIDAE. 
GENUs BUFO. (Laurenti.) TOADS. 
8. Bufo Lentiginosus Americanus. (LeConte.) 
be common American toad is found everywhere in congenial places, 
Notwithstanding some people have such a repugnance for these animals, 
they are very useful to the husbandman, by devouring a great many insects 
and larvae, and ought not to be killed as many persons do whenever the 
It is when closely observed, very lively pi from the appear- 
ance of its eye, a very intelligent animal and makes a nice pet. 
GENUS ENGYSTOMA. (Fitzinger.) 
9. Engystoma carolinense. eres ee The Nebulous Toa 
This little toad is quite I have only found it in ‘spring at Cliff 
pei St. Louis Petid Mo. pails on he top of a bluff on the southwest- 
are ok easily seen on account of their color and being 
wasnt hid in the peal under rocks and logs. 
-Famiry Hyipar. TREE Frogs. 
GENUS Acris. (Dum & Brib.) 
10. Acris Grylius Crepitans. (Baird.) Western Cricket-frog. 
This species is the most common of all little frogs. It is found near pools 
and creeks, where it generally sits on the banks so as to resort to the water 
when alarmed, It can make jumps from three to four feet long. 
