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15. Diemyctylus viridescens Raf. Common Newt. 
Apparently this species was uncommon. From Echo Lake, I 
took a single specimen in the larval condition, about the last of 
July. Another, an adult, was found dead in a small pool on the 
intervale, but other than these I found no specimens of this form. 
Of the land form, “ miniatus” I found, late in September, a single 
specimen, lazily swimming in shallow water near the shore of Echo 
Lake. It was so listless in its movements that I easily captured 
it in my hands. 
16. Desmognathus fusca Raf. Dusky Salamander. 
The commonest salamander. I found it in numbers under 
old logs, stones, or leaves near the small mountain brooks, but in 
no case were adults found in the streams. What I took to be the 
larvae of this species, though I did not rear them through, were 
common in all the pebbly mountain brooks, especially in places 
where there was a bottom of granite sand and pebbles. Not 
infrequently I found the adults at a considerable distance from any 
brook, but in such cases they were always under old logs in cool, 
damp places. When uncovered they could easily be captured, as 
they seemed dazed by the sudden light. They seem to be most 
active at night. I once caught three and put them in a small 
bottle with a perforated cork in its mouth. During the day, they 
remained contentedly in the bottle, occasionally moving about or 
trying to assume an erect position on the side of the bottle. Dur¬ 
ing the night, however, the two smaller ones managed to crawl 
through the hole in the cork, and were found next morning cov¬ 
ered with dust, on the floor. The third could not have gone 
through the hole by reason of its larger size, otherwise it would 
doubtless have followed the others. 
None of the Intervale specimens had an}^ perceptible membran¬ 
ous expansion on the tail, and were, for the time, terrestrial. I 
therefore carefully compared them with Cope’s original description 
of Desmognathus oclcrojihaea (Proc. acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1859, 
p. 124), which is as follows: — “Color above, varying from 
bright, to dirty and fuscous straw-color, most specimens with an 
indefinite medial row of irregular brown spots; a deep brown line 
passing through the eye and along the dorso-lateral region of the 
body to the end of the tail; distinctly defined along its upper edge, 
fading into fuscous marblings on the sides. Belly pure white. 
Susquehanna Co., Penn. A terrestrial species.” 
