SALAMANDRIDZ: TRITON. 19 
Salamandra major Gray in Griffith’s A. K. ix. 
Sal. fenestrata Mus. Paris. 
Triton nebulosus Guich. Explor. Sci. Alger. Rept. t. 4. f. 1. (no 
text). 
Tene Poireti Gervais, Bull. Soc. Sc. Nat. 1835, vi. 313., Ann. 
Sci. Nat. vii. 312. 
Lacerta palustris ? Poiret, Voy. Barb. i. 290. (not Linn.) 
?Glossoliga Poireti Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 131. t. . f..3. (young) ; 
Fitz. 8. R. 33. 
a. In spirits. N. Africa? 
b. In spirits. Young? N. Africa? ‘Tail short, very acute, 
only as long as the body, with an even membranous fin 
on each edge. Back and tail brown-spotted. 
2. TRITON CRISTATUS. 
Blackish, black-spotted ; sides minutely white-dotted. ‘Tail with 
a lanceolate bluish longitudinal band, rather below the middle ; 
lower edge yellow or orange. Belly yellow or red, with rows 
of black spots, the middle spot often confluent. Parotids po- 
rous. A series of pores on each side of the back, and along 
each side of the belly, continued over the under side of the 
limbs, forking in front, going over and under the eyes. The line 
over the eyes and in front of the orbit is formed of two or three 
- series. Lips of adult dilated, enlarged. 
Male in breeding season: dorsal and caudal crest toothed, 
and separated by a notch at the loins. Female and male in 
winter: crest none; lower edge of tail orange. (Penn. B. Z. 
iu. t. 4.3; Laur. Rept. t. 2. f. 4.) 
Young olive-brown, dorsal line yellow; abdomen orange, 
black-spotted ; lower edge of tail orange-red. 
Triton cristatus Laur. Rept. 39.146. ; Tschudi, Batrach. 95.; Fitz. 
S. R. 34.; Bell, Brit. Rept. 119. fig. (adult); Bonap. Fauna 
Ttal.t. .f.1.2.; Bibron, P. Z. S. 1838, 23. 
Lacerta palustris Linn. S. N. 1. 370.; Sturm, Faun. Germ. t. 
T. americanus Laur. Rept. 49., from Seba, Thes, t. 89. f. 4, 5. 
?Lac. americana Houtt. ; Gmelin, S. N. 1. 1065, 
Lac. aquatica a. Gmelin, S. N.i. 1065. (not Linn.) 
Lac. lacustris Blumenb. Handb. 248. 
Salamandra palustris Schneid. Amph. 1. 60. 
Lac. porosa Retzius, Faun, Suec. 1.288. 3 
Salamandra cristata Schneider, Amph. i. 57.3; Daud. Rept. viii. 
233.; Cuvier, R. A. 1. 100. ed. 2. 11. 116. 
S. platyura Daubent. 
S. laticauda Bonnat, Enc. Meth. t. 2. f. 4. 
