crystalline. These same glistening sand hills are often rain-pitted, usually very- minute as some isolated drops hit at times the pitting is decided and unin- dividualized drops indicating constant rain and not a passing shower. As a rule one may say that the rain was scattering and if no gust force or direction it is the condition seen in the dry Triassic shales of Connecticut. The amphibian tracks occur through- out the Grand Chuckle and are restricted to the glistening sun-cracked hills. There are certainly 4 and possibly 6 species ascending to dungen. I saw the place in Pittsfield where Isaac Lea got his famous precursors. He came about 1875 but before the trip of the Grand Chuckle. dungen gets our careful distinct im-