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lowing facts: Eschscholtz, upon his return from Kotzebue’s second 
voyage, began, in 1829, the publication of a Zoologischer Atlas in 
which the species of animals collected on the voyage were described. 
Eschscholtz is undoubtedly the sole author of the first four parts of 
the Atlas and hence of the new names proposed therein (for example, 
Cams ochropus , part 3, 1829, pp. 1-2, pi. XI). 
Eschscholtz died on May 7, 1831, before the fifth and last part 
of the Atlas was completed. In a biographical sketch of Eschscholtz, 
written by Martin Heinrich Rathke, an associate of Eschscholtz at 
Dorpat, and included in the last part of the Atlas, it is stated that 
Eschscholtz had written descriptions for certain of the animals in- 
tended for inclusion in this part of the work, but that for others only 
the information set down in his “Tagebuch” (field notes) was 
available. Rathke undertook to complete the work, adding extensive 
anatomical descriptions for several species. The brief technical de- 
scription of Salamandrina attenuata (part 5, p. 1) is given with “ E” 
as authority, that for Triton ensatus (p. 6) is likewise in quotations 
with Eschscholtz’ name appended. Following the few lines describ- 
ing the external characters there is for each an anatomical description, 
obviously from Rathke ’s pen. On pages 12 to 14 there is the descrip- 
tion of Triton torosus entirely lacking in quotation marks which would 
ascribe any part of the text there to Eschscholtz, and couched in lan- 
guage similar to that used in the anatomical descriptions added by 
Rathke to the accounts of the preceding two species. A footnote on 
page 13 referring to a paper published by Rathke in 1820 is couched 
in the first person. It seems impossible therefore to do otherwise than 
ascribe to Rathke authorship for the name torosus. 
Additional specimens collected by other explorers on the coast of 
California were described by Wiegmann in 1835 as Triton Ermani 
and by Gray in 1839 as Salamandra Beecheyi. In 1849 Skilton de- 
scribed a rough-skinned (terrestrial) individual from Oregon as 
Salamandra {Triton) granulosa, and in 1853 Baird and Girard gave 
the name Taricha Icevis to a smooth-bodied (aquatic) individual col- 
lected by Dr. John L. LeConte at San Francisco in February, 1850. 
Reid in 1895 applied the name Amblystoma rubrum to this species in 
the vicinity of Pasadena. 
Range. — Triturus torosus is the most widely distributed species of 
salamander on the Pacific Coast of North America. At the north it 
has been found in southeastern Alaska at Hassler’s Harbor, Revilla- 
jigedo [= Revillagigedo] Harbor, and Port Chester (Cope, 1889, 
