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28 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Oa Papers Distribution.— This salamander ranges from British Columbia south along the coast to northwestern California. In British Columbia it has been taken at Chilliwack Lake, Bella Coola, Hagensborg, and on Vancouver Island. In Washington, it is known to occur in Clallam (Neah Bay, Lake Crescent), Jefferson (Hob River near Spruce), Chehalis (Quiniault), Mason (Lake Cushman, Wildcat Lake, Skokomish River Valley), and Pierce (Mount Rainier), counties. Oregon records are Seaside, Clatsop County, Hood River, and Three Sisters at 5,000 feet, and Butte Creek, Marion County. In California it has been found near Requa, Del Norte County, and at Fair Oaks, Humboldt County. Ambystoma decorticatum Cope British Columbia Salamander Amblystoma decorticatum CoPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1886, p. 522 (type locality, Port Simpson, British Columbia). Chondrotus decorticatus Cope, Amer. Naturalist, 1887, p. 88; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 107, fig. 22. Ambystoma decorticatum Stejneger & Bakbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 9; Pratt, Verteb. Animals of the U. S., 1923, p. 152; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Kept., 1923, p. 5. Description. — Similar to A. paroticum. This species, known only from the type specimen, is described by Cope as being very close in character to A. paroticum, from which it differs in having less pronounced parotoid glands, a much shorter series of vomerine teeth, a more obtuse head, and in being smaller in size. Ground color dark brown, with numerous white spots of irregular form and size on back, limbs, and tail. Under surfaces light brown. Measurements of the TYPE in the Collection of the United States National Museum Total length 174 Width of head 16 Fore limb 26 Hind limb 26 Distribution.— This salamander has been recorded only Simpson, British Columbia. from Port
No. 16] AMPHIBIANS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA 29 Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird Long-toed Salamander Plate 1, figure 2 Ambystoma macrodactyla Baird, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ser. 2, I, 1849, pp. 283, 292 (type locality, Astoria, Oregon) ; Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., XII, Pt. II, 1860, pi. 31, fig. 3. Amblystoma macrodactylum Copb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 198; Strauch, Mem. Acad. Impr. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. 7, XVI, No. 4, 1870, p. 65; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 26; Smith, The Tailed Amphibians including the Caecilians, 1877, p. 43; Boulenger, Cat. Batrach. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 48; Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 23; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 95, fig. 17, pi. XXV, fig. 6; Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, pp. 181, 184. Am,bystom,a macrodactylum Hallowell, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, Pt. 1, 1858, p. 354; Cooper, in Cronise, Nat. Wealth of Calif., 1868, p. 486; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1911, p. 223; Van Denburgh, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, VI, No. 7, 1916, p. 215; Grinnell & Camp, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. XVII, No. 10, 1917, p. 138; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 10; Fowler & Dunn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1917, p. 10; Dunn, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, No. 9, 1918, p. 458; Blanchard, Copeia, 1921, No. 90, p. 5; Patch, Copeia, 1922, No. Ill, p. 75; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1923, p. 5; Storer, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., XXVII, 1925, p. 71. . Amblystoma epixanthum CoPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 16 (type locality, swamp near the head of the South Boise River, south side of the Sawtooth Mountain Range, Idaho) ; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 97, fig. 18, pi. XXV, fig. 8. Ambystoma epixanthum Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 5, 1891, p. Ill; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 9; Fowler & Dunn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1917, p. 11. Aneides iecanus Dice, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., XVI, No. 17, 1916, pp. 306, 309. Description. — Limbs strong and well-developed, meeting when adpressed. No parotoid gland. Tail conical, flattened distally. Head depressed; snout oval, slightly overhanging in profile. Eyes small, separated anteriorly by one and one-half times the length of the orbital slit. Nostrils small, opening laterally near corners of snout, separated by their distance from pupil. Line of lip straight. Vomerine teeth in an open v-shaped series starting at a point just posterior to the inner nares and meeting on the median line at a point opposite or just beyond the anterior point of the
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