With our commonnewts (Triton punctatus and cristatus) a deep, much indented crest is developed along the back and tail of the male during the breeding- season, which disappears during the winter.
The sexes of salamanders ornewts often differ much both in colour and structure.
I kept live Bats in our upstairs little-used drawing-room, andNewts and Frogs in pans in the backyard.
If the newts then approach and touch it, the lovers believe their happiness assured by the will of the gods; but if the newts do not come near it, the omen is evil.
It is believed that the flesh of the newts in the sacred pond of Yaegaki possesses aphrodisiac qualities; and the body of the creature, reduced to ashes, by burning, was formerly converted into love-powders.
The water is very clear; and there are many of these newts to be seen.
I would have been prepared to bet that as long as the supply of newts didn't give out, nothing could have shifted him from that village of his.
All that would have resulted would have been that she would have got that lecture on newts a few days earlier.
Tuppy, vibrating like one of Gussie's newts during the courting season.
Amongst the Amphibians we meet with distinctly modern types, such as Frogs (Rana) and Newts or Salamanders.
Water-beetles, newts and some other creatures come to the surface for their air, and take no oxygen, or very little, from the water.
Frogs and toads eat insects, little beetles, worms, grubs, caterpillars, and newts need an occasional worm.
If the tub is for newts and such things as do not live wholly in the water, then the stones should be built until they come above the water and so form a little island.
The newts and salamanders find young tadpoles very good eating and they make way with hundreds of them.
Newts are highly aquatic; they are found in ditches, marshes, and ponds, which after the breeding season they leave for moist places on land, often then finding their way into drains and cellars.
It is small and smooth, and situated on the left, and in advance of the ventricle in Newts and Salamanders.
Newts present another remarkable feature in the facility with which they repair any mutilations they may have undergone.
It has been ascertained that Newts can live for a long time, not only in very cold water, but even in the midst of ice, being sometimes taken in blocks of ice which are formed in the ditches and ponds which they inhabit.
But we took the one the Imp had caught back to the pond, and, as we put it in, made a vow not to keep newts again.
Then we emptied the jam pot full of newts into the bowl, and saw them swim gaily about examining their new home.
In the love-making times, when the he-newts show their gorgeous coats, the stickleback lords put on a brilliant uniform of glittering green and scarlet and gold.
There were the newts swimming about, and there were their old skins, like pale, grey films, floating in the water.
Illustration] The sticklebacks are like the newtsof the duck-pond in quite a number of ways.
Newts are not any more easy to keep at home in a bowl than little frogs.
The Duck Pond is like a little world of its own with ducks for giants, and newts for dragons, and all the tiny folk and the little snails for ordinary citizens.
Here is the story: Once upon a time there were two brownnewts who lived in a pond.
It certainly would not be pleasant to be bottled up in muddy water for the little newts to see.
Most frogs, toads, and newts come out of the egg as tadpoles, furnished with gills and so breathing in water.
The same process we observe in toads; and it is also the same in our newts, excepting that in newts the tail remains.
These Newts have more than once been taken in the act of devouring individuals of the smaller species, but of such a size that there seems to have been considerable difficulty in swallowing them.
Illustration: "Alan intended to make the newts run races.
I don't mind frogs half so much,' explained Georgie, with a look of disgust at the newts struggling in Alan's grasp.
The newtswere specially disliked by Georgie, and now, to make matters worse, Alan placed two of them on the floor.
The small frogs, sticklebacks, and mud-lampreys were already enjoying themselves, and Alan was determined that the tadpoles and newts should be as happy.
Such are four genera of snakes, seven of lizards, five of frogs and toads, and twelve of newts and salamanders; while of fresh-water fishes there are about twenty peculiar genera.
Newts can be taken with the gauze-net or in the following way:--Tie a piece of small worm on to the end of a cotton thread fastened to the end of a willow or hazel switch.
The boys were surprised to see him take one of the newts out of the net in his hand.
I think we had better take our newts back to the pond now, Frank.
What is the difference between youngnewts (tadpoles) and young frogs (tadpoles)?
Even at the present day many people believe thatnewts and toads are dangerous animals.
Young newts are tadpoles too, but they differ very much from frog tadpoles.
Cast into the part of the pond where the newts are, and await results.
Newts should be fed once a day on pieces of small worms.
During autumn and winter great families of newts sleep together under stones and in dry holes in the earth.
If it sinks to the bottom and the newts touch it all will be well, but if it does not sink and if the newts disregard it, then it is an ill omen.
It could be seen distinctly through the limpid water and presently the newts were observed to approach it.
There are water newts in it, and one tests his fortune by sailing a small boat in which he puts a rin.
If you dig in the ooze in winter, you may turn up whole spadefuls of frogs and great crested newts in certain cosy corners, lying torpid and half dead, but waiting patiently for the returning sun of spring to warm them.
The newts retain their tails through life, but the more advanced frogs drop or absorb theirs, and assume the shape of thorough-going land animals.
Indeed, frogs and newts are merely slight variations on the fishy type, evolved to meet this very want and to fill this very place in the economy of nature: practically speaking, they are fish which turn at last into terrestrial reptiles.
To what class do the frogs and toads and newts belong?
Four species of newts have been described as occurring in this country--the two common kinds are the smooth newt and the warty newt.
If you will look at a pond where newts abound, you will see the old ones constantly coming to the top of the water, gulping down a mouthful of air and then returning to the bottom.
The young ones are ready for leaving the water in the autumn, but I have often obtained young newts with their gills fully developed in the depth of winter.
I think I once found the palmated newt near Eyton; the male of this species is distinguished from other newtsby having the hind legs webbed and by a thin filament or thread at the end of the tail.
Full-grown newts do not frequent the water excepting for the sake of laying their eggs.
NEWTS All through their lives newtskeep their tails, instead of losing them when they cease to be tadpoles.
Newts swim with their tails, and very pretty and graceful they look as they move through the water.
Often in the woods in certain parts of the United States you will meet with little newts traveling about on the damp old leaves; and they are very conspicuous because of their brilliant vermilion color.
These are young green newts which come out of the water, live ashore for a year or so in the red suit, and then go back to the water and a green coat.
You can find newts in plenty all through spring and summer by fishing with a small net in any weedy pond; but you will find that they are not all alike.
Every year she sez to me, sez she, why ain't the Newts failed yet?
Her son Corlaer, whose education had been intercepted by his father, was of opinion, when he heard that the Newts were at Saratoga, that his health imperatively required Congress water.
These are now bordered by aquatic grasses, and from their depths every now and then the newts come up to the surface.
Newts seem to prefer stagnant or nearly stagnant ponds, and are rarely seen in running water.
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