£4 CADUCIBRANCHIATA, 



Length 23^ inches. Head to gular fold 3/s inch. 



Tail i% " Breadth of head 3-16 " 



Habitat Maine to Florida, Louisiana, and Wisconsin. 

 Common. 



Lives under stones and decaying matter in woods and 

 moist places, especially along the banks of brooks and in 

 shallow water, and is very active. 



Var. cirrigera seems to differ from, this mainly in the 

 possession of two barbels between the nostrils and lip in 

 the male; thev are not present in the female. Green 

 (9, b) says, "when these animals were alive the cirrhi or 

 nasal appendages were about one-fourth of an inch long. 

 From the situation where they were found, and from 

 their general appearance, they muse be placed among 

 the Land Salamanders; but their fleshy cirrhi seems 

 conclusively to prove that their principal resort must be 

 in the water." 



2. Spelerpes loDgicaudus, Green. (14) 



THE LONG-TAILED SALAMANDER. 



Synonyms, Salamandra longicauda, Green, Holbrook, 

 De Kay, Harlan; Spelerpes lucifuga, Rafinesque; Cy- 

 lindrosoma longicaudatum, Tschudi, Dumeril and Bib- 

 ron; Saurocercus longicauda, Fitzinger. 



Color yellow; body, head, chin, and gular region 

 cream-colored, belly yellowish white ; spots dark color- 



