@mastersthesis {76641,
	title = {The Distribution and Habits of Amphibia and Reptiles in Lincoln, Benton and Linn Counties},
	volume = {M.S.},
	year = {1939},
	note = {Interesting observations are tucked away in this Master{\textquoteright}s thesis. Consider this example of the habits of the rough-skinned newt, Taricha granulosa, which Graf calls by its older name, Triturus similans, {\textquotedblleft}During late summer and early fall large masses or groups of Triturus have been observed to congregate at a common point in the water . . .  The numbers observed have been from a dozen to fifty or sixty and even up to several hundred.  July 16, 1938, such a mass group was observed in Beaver Creek between Waldport and Newport about a mile above the mouth of the creek. The water was perfectly clear and about three or four feet deep where about sixty Triturus were {\textquotedblleft}swarming{\textquotedblright} in a quite compact mass in the middle of the stream about a foot above the bottom of the stream bed. All seemed to be crowding about a common point, yet there was nothing visible which might attract them.{\textquotedblright} Includes bw photographs of specimens and habitats.},
	pages = {93 p.},
	school = {Oregon State College},
	address = {Corvallis, Or.},
	keywords = {abundance, Alsea River, amphibians, Beaver Creek, Coastal giant salamander = Dicamptodon tenebrosus, Fall Creek, geographical distribution, habitats, herpetology, Muddy Creek, Northwestern salamander = Ambystoma gracile, reptiles, Rough-skinned newt = Taricha granulosa, Santiam River, theses, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/j098zf49j},
	author = {Graf, William}
}
