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two darh hrown lines, one on either side. The under 

 parts are a spotless citron yellow. The pretty little 

 creature is scarcely more than three inches in length ; 

 his tiny legs are terminated by the slenderest of toes, 

 and his small figure is altogether dainty and attractive. 

 Very probably he is the salamander to which Dr. 

 Abbott refers in Days Out of Doors, thus : " Deeper 

 in the drifted mass, where the trickling waters of a 

 little spring had formed a shallow pool, were numbers 

 of long, lithe yellow salamanders, which I had not 

 found before, and so had held were not to be included 

 in our fauna. I forgot for the time that others might 

 have been more fortunate, as was the case." Yes, 

 these amber-yellow salamanders, even if they are not 

 common in New Jersey, are somewhat common in 

 ITew York — in the southern Catskills, for instance — 

 and in Pennsylvania. The northern range of the 

 species is extended with decreasing numbers to the 

 borders of Maine, and, although specimens may not 

 be common, perhaps, in New Hampshire, I have found 

 one as far north as Squam Lake. Southwardly and 

 westwardly this species is found in Florida and Ohio. 

 The yellow salamander is aquatic to a certain extent, 

 and frequents shallow brooks, stony swamps, and cold 

 springs ; but I have also found the little fellow 

 among the weeds that border the brook. He is a 

 sprightly creature, and wriggles away from the hand 



