54 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. 



ments of one or two wriggling so-called lizards will 

 betray tlieir presence. 



I have found this salamander quite plentiful in 

 the shallow brooks of Campton, N. H., particularly 

 where these run through stony, boggy places charac- 

 terized by blackish mud, and perhaps shaded by the 

 feathery boughs of the hemlock. But the species is 

 common throughout the country, although its eastern 

 limit is probably Essex County, Mass. 



The ocher - colored salamander, Desmognathus 

 ochrophcea, is an allied species of more local interest, 

 which is found in Essex County, N. Y., and in the 

 Alleghany Mountains. It is abundant in the Black 

 Mountains of North Carolina and northern Pennsyl- 

 vania. Its color is brownish yellow above, with a 

 dorsal row of spots in darker yellowish color, and on 

 either side of it, lower down, a band of the same color 

 which extends to the tip of the tail. Beneath, it is 

 without spots. 



This small species, not more than three inches 

 long, and rarely exceeding half the size of Desmogna- 

 tlmsfuwa, resembles the red-backed salamander, but 

 its figure is stouter. Its tail is rounded, in which re- 

 spect it differs from Desmognathus fusca, and it also 

 differs from the other species of the genus Desmog- 

 natJtus in its thoroughly terrestrial habits. Instead 

 of hiding under the stones of the brook, it frequents 



