34 LESSER WATER-NEWT. Class III. 



dorsal crest, might be almost mistaken for a 

 different species by a person inconversant in the 

 history of the animal. On the top of the head 

 in both sexes are three or four longitudinal 

 dusky streaks ; the eyes are small and gold 

 colored ; the fore feet tetradactylous ; the hind 

 pentadactylous : all destitute of claws, and in 

 some specimens more or less approaching to a 

 kind of palmated appearance towards the base." 

 Ed. 



