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The mid-dorsal stripe on the back was grape green in life on a 
specimen collected at Sawmill Lake, British Columbia. 
Measurements of Adult Specimens of Ambystoma macrodactylum from 
Crater Lake, Oregon, Collected June 26, 1918 
M. V. Z. 
No. 
Total length 
Length of tail 
Snout to gular 
fold 
Greatest width 
of head 
Orbit 
Interorbital 
Fore leg 
i 
Axilla to groin 
Hind leg 
Hind foot 
7166 
100 
41 
13.7 
9.5 
3.2 
3.5 
14.5 
6.4 
30 
17.0 
9.5 
7165 
113 
49.5 
14.5 
9.5 
3.7 
3.2 
17.0 
7.4 
34 
18.0 
10.7 
7164 
115 
48 
13.2 
8.7 
4.0 
3.4 
14.6 
6.2 
28 
17.8 
8.6 
Range. — This salamander occupies a wide extent of territory in 
the northwestern United States and western British Columbia. In 
California it has been found near Medicine Lake, Siskiyou County, 
6500 feet (Grinnell and Camp, 1917, pp. 138-139) and near Fallen 
Leaf Lake where three specimens were taken in July, 1915 (Van 
Denburgh, 1916, p. 215). In Oregon it has been found at Crater Lake 
(Evermann, 1897, p. 235), and at Fort Klamath and Astoria (Cope, 
1889, p. 97). In Washington it has been collected at Cheney, Spokane 
County, and Prescott, Walla Walla County (specimens in Mus. Vert. 
Zool.), at Fort Walla Walla (Cope, lac. cit.), on Mount Rainier (Van 
Denburgh, 1912c, p. 259), at Iloquam, Chehalis County, and Port 
Angeles, Clallam County (specimens in Calif. Acad. Sci.), at Semiah- 
moo, Whatcom County (Cope, loc. cit.), and at Springdale, Stevens 
County (Blanchard, 1921, p. 5). To the east, it is recorded from Fort 
Custer, Montana (Cope, loc. cit.), and in Idaho at Payette Lake, and 
McCall, Boise County (Van Denburgh and Slevin, 19215, pp. 40-41). 
Cope (1883, pp. 16-17) under the name Ambly stoma epixanthum 
records 4 specimens from near the head of the South Boise River on 
the south side of the Sawtooth Mountains. In British Columbia this 
species has been taken at Chiloweyuck [—Chilliwack] Lake (Cope, 
1889, p. 97), at Hatzic (Cope, 1893, p. 181), at Watson Lake, Clinton, 
Bella Coola, and Hagensborg (Patch, 1922, pp. 75-76), and on the 
Stikine River at Sawmill Lake, 4 miles north of Telegraph Creek 
(no. 7284, Mus. Vert. Zook). 
Life-history. — Little is known concerning the long-toed salamander. 
Evermann (1897, p. 235) says that at Crater Lake, Oregon, August 19 
to 24, 1896, 
It is [was] by far the most abundant and interesting vertebrate occurring at 
Crater Lake. Our first specimens were found on the shore under Red Cloud Cliff, 
where we found it to be exceedingly abundant. It was afterward found in con- 
siderable numbers along the shore in Eagle Cove, and a few were obtained about 
Wizard Island. More than a hundred specimens were collected, and many more 
could have been obtained. The majority of the individuals seen were adults; only 
4 or 5 still retaining the external gills were seen. These salamanders were found 
under the rocks, just above the edge of the water of the Lake. Sometimes as many 
as a dozen or fifteen were found under a single flat stone. 
