Vol. 33, pp. 129-138 December 30, 1920 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON SOME REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA BY E. R. DUNN. In the summer of 1919, I collected in the Southern States, for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the work centering around the mountains. It has seemed worth while to record the localities and to add a few notes on the salamanders. I wish to express my gratitude to the authorities of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and especially to Dr. Thomas Barbour for the opportunity of making this trip. List of Collecting Localities. Mt. Vernon, Va.; June 20 and 23; Coastal Plain; heavy, damp woods, swamp and tidal flats; altitude below 100 feet. Dogue Creek, Va.: June 21; Coastal Plain; the flood plain of a small stream; open meadow land; altitude below 100 feet. Crozet, Va.: August 28; foot of the Blue Ridge in the interior valley of Albemarle and Nelson Counties, Va. ; altitude 700 feet. I include here some specimens taken by my brother, R. A. Dunn, during August and September. Midway Mills, Nelson Co., Va. : June 26-July 6, Aug. 22 and 24; plateau deeply dissected by the James River and small tributaries; river altitude 350 feet, plateau level 550 to 600 feet. Manteo, Va. : June 30; same general region as Midway. White Top Gap, Va., High Southern Blue Ridge: July 9-11; White Top Mt. in the Stone Mountains is 5520 feet. The altitude of the more level country is about 3500 feet, and is apparently the same plateau-like surface as at Linville, and is possibly the Kittattinny peneplain. White Top Mt. is wooded at the base with a chestnut-white oak forest and at the top with a fir forest. In between the two is what is now, and has been for a long time, pasture laud. Abingdon, Va. : July 13; Holston Valley at 2000 feet. Typical Appa-lachian valley country with narrow ridges and broader valleys alternating. 29— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 33, 1920. (129)
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