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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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174 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL is usually found hiding under flat stones in the beds of brooks, not actually under water, but where the soil is thoroughly saturated with moisture. When disturbed in its hiding-places, it does not entirely depend upon its diminutive limbs for escaping from danger, but makes surprisingly rapid progress by doubling its body into a series of lateral undulations and suddenly straighten- ing it. The result is a niimber of bewildering jumps. This per- formance is varied with a snake-like wriggling. Thus, with a combination of agile motions, the little animal makes like a flash
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FIG. 9. THE TWO-LINED OR YELLOW-BACKED SALAMANDER From specimen in New York Zoological Park for the water and secretes itself among the stones. It is seldom seen except in the immediate vicinity of water, and the larvae attain nearly the size of the adult before they begin an air- breathing existence. The Long-tailed, or Cave, Salamander, Spelerpes longicaitda Green (Fig. to), resembles in form the Two-lined Salamander, Long-tailed ^^^ ^^ ^ larger species and has a proportionately or Cave, 'longer tail. The tail is much compressed and con- Salaman- siderably longer than the body. The back is rich ^^^' yellow, the sides paler. Scattered over the entire upper surface are coarse, black dots, which, on the sides of the tail

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