. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. SONQLESS BATRACHIANS. 53 stone in a cold spring, or oftener in a hollow beside the stone. He swims with considerable activity, and is not easily caught as he glides through the water with limbs pressed against the body and tail undulat- ing rapidly; but once on land he is at the mercy of his pursuer. His eilorts at locomotion are neither graceful nor rapid. The food of this species con- sists of insects. Still another even more common salamander, per- haps the most abundant one in North America, is found
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. SONQLESS BATRACHIANS. 53 stone in a cold spring, or oftener in a hollow beside the stone. He swims with considerable activity, and is not easily caught as he glides through the water with limbs pressed against the body and tail undulat- ing rapidly; but once on land he is at the mercy of his pursuer. His eilorts at locomotion are neither graceful nor rapid. The food of this species con- sists of insects. Still another even more common salamander, per- haps the most abundant one in North America, is found in the hillside spring. This is Desmognathus fusca, a little mud-colored character scarcely ^^^^ more than four inches long, which burrows under the pebbles and stones, and whose dark brown color ad-. Desmognathus fusca. ""^^MJ&a^y-.'-jgr^^- ~- - "^^^""''i^fei () Section of keel-shaped tail at A. > "--^~ - mirably protects it from enemies. The tail of this species is characterized by finlike and keellike extensions which narrow toward the tip. Amongv the wet blackish roots and stones of the brook the little creature is not easily distinguished from his surroundings, consequently he escapes our notice; but turn over a half-dozen stones on the border of some shallow pool, and the agile move-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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