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FIFTEENTH REPORT. 
aud Hcmidactijliiim scut at um to the fauna of northern Michigan and 
lias extended the known range of Liopeltis venial is, previously known 
in this part only from Mackinac County, to Lake Superior. Finally the 
occurrence of the distinctly northern liana septentrionalis at Whitefish 
Point indicates that it is probably generally distributed in northern 
Michigan, a point that has been in doubt. 
LIST OF SPECIES. 
AMPHIBIANS. 
1. Plethodon erythronotus (Green). Red-backed Salamander. — Seven 
specimens of the red-backed salamander were taken from decayed logs 
in damp woods near the Whitefish Point postoffice, and one was col- 
lected in the birch-spruce forest. 
2. Hemidactylium scutatum (Schlegel). Four-toed Salamander.— A 
single specimen of this (in Michigan) rare salamander was collected by 
Mr. Wood on Aug. 2. It was found under a moss-covered log in a 
dried-up water hole in the dense forest at the base of the point. 
This record is very interesting in view of the uncertain distribution of 
the species in Hie state. The only Michigan records 2 are five specimens 
taken in Eaton County and five collected during the past three years in 
a woods six miles south of Ann Arbor. Moreover, as far as the writers 
have been able to determine, this is decidedly the northernmost record 
for the species, ff. scutatum is fairly common in the east from as far 
south as Georgia. The most northern record lias apparently been a speci- 
men in the National Museum from St. Catherine’s, Canada, collected by 
Dr. Beadle, and recorded by Cope. 3 We are informed by Dr. Leonhard 
Stejneger that there is no data (With the specimen to show that it is 
St. Catherine’s Ontario, rather than St. Catherine's, Quebec, that is re- 
ferred to, but in the report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1 SGI 
(p. 64) it is stated that 1>. W. Beadle donated some specimens from 
“Canada West;” and Mr. C. W. Nash, Provincial Museum, Toronto, in- 
forms us that he knew Dr. Beadle, and that there can be little doubt that 
the specimen came from St. Catherine’s, Ontario. Nash accepts this 
locality in his manual. 4 
Bufo americanus T.e Conte. American Toad. — Four adult toads 
were found in a clearing, and recently transformed specimens were com- 
mon in a shallow pond near the end of Beaver Lake. These are the 
only records secured. 
4. Rana pipiens Schreber. Leopard Frog. — This form was found com- 
monly around Beaver Lake, and about I lie transient ponds, and two 
specimens were taken in a hay field near Vermilion. 
5. Rana clamitans Latreille. Green Frog. — Four green frogs were 
taken in the outlet to Beaver Lake. 
6. Rana cantabrigensis Baird. Wood Frog. — This species was com- 
mon about the edges of the grassy marshes and the small ponds which 
occupied the depressions between the sand ridges. One specimen was 
collected in the dense forest at the base of the point. 
7. Rana septentrionalis Baird. Mink Frog. — Two specimens were 
collected from Clark’s Brook at Vermilion. 
-Thompson. and II . The Amphibians of Michigan, Mich. 
io, Bioi. so-, o, pp. 34-no. 
-Cope, Batraehia of Norili America, Bull. IT. S. Nal. Mus.. 
‘Nash v W., Manual of Vertebrates of Ontario, Batr. and 
Oeol. and Biol. Siirv., 
No. 34. 1889. p. 132. 
Kept., 190S, C>. 
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