REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1923 87 
NOTES ON SALAMANDERS 
BY SHERMAN C. BISHOP 
The collections on which these notes are based were made during 
a short trip in October 1923, in the Blue Ridge mountains of west- 
ern North Carolina. A few additional notes and photographs put 
on record the results of a half day’s collecting in the vicinity of 
Raleigh in company with C. S. Brimley and W. B. Mabee of the 
Division of Entomology, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment 
Station. 
Although the trip was undertaken primarily for the purpose of 
collecting arachnids, the localities chosen for exploration included 
some that have long been of great interest to herpetologists. This 
was the case when we collected along the Yonahlossee road between 
Blowing Rock and Linville, on the southwestern slopes of Grand- 
father mountain, and finally when we visited Mount Mitchell, Mount 
Pisgah and some of the foothills near Black mountain. 
In one of the several streams which rise on the southern slopes 
of Grandfather Mountain and cross the Yonahlossee road, Dr J. 
Percy Moore found the specimens to establish the genus Leurog- 
nathwus.! In this locality, probably in the stream visited by Moore, 
we found our first specimens of this interesting salamander in the 
pool at the foot of a small waterfall. Here, ‘.u, were many speci- 
mens of Desmognathus quadra-maculatus anda few 
of Desmoenathtus ochrophaeus carolinensis. 
When encamped on the southwestern slope of Grandfather moun- 
tain, collections were made in the small streams that rise in the cold 
Springs near the summit, and under logs and stones both in the open 
and in the forest. On Mount Mitchell, Steprock creek at about 
6000 feet furnished most of the specimens of Gyrinophilus 
damnwel/ si vandhu yc¢ eal bi slin eatial iwi lider ale) taken 
on the trip. Other places visited were Minehole Gap, Buncombe 
county, Montreat, and Stoney mountain near Hendersonville. 
The exceedingly dry weather which prevailed for a month before 
we reached the mountains and continued during the greater part of 
our stay, accounts in large part for the scarcity of some of the 
terrestrial salamanders commonly found in this region. Neither 
Plethodon yonahlossee nor P. metcalfi were taken, 
although the former is reported by Dunn? and the latter by Brimley? 
1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, pt 2, pp. 316-323, pl. 14, figs. I-11. 
2 Bul. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1017, 37:602. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1912, 25:130. 
