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as much a toad as any of the genus Bufo. The flat spur, as it has been 

 called, at the root of the first toe on the internal margin of the metatarsus, is 

 nothing more than a much developed form of a scale or disk occupying the same 

 situation in most animals of this family. 



Although very seldom seen except when accidentally turned up by the spade 

 or the plough, yet the Scaphiopus is a very common animal in Georgia. When- 

 ever the South East storms occur at the Autumnal Equinox, the surface of the 

 earth is covered with them, and their dismal croakings add to the horror of the 

 howling winds and the deluges of water which pour down from the heavens. 



They have also been found in Connecticut and Massachusetts. When placed 

 upon the ground they dig with remarkable celerity, and soon entirely bury 

 themselves in the earth. 



BUFO. 



B. musicus Daudin 1. c. p. 92, pi 32. B. lentiginosis Holbrook v. pi. i. 



This species like all its congeners varies very much in color and in the form 

 and disposition of the spots. This variation depends entirely on the will of the 

 animal. It is generally however of a very dark dusky, sometimes light grey 

 and even reddish. I cannot conceive how it has ever received the name oilen- 

 tiginosus, which as I have shown before under Telmatobius is as unlike this 

 animal as any species can be. The Rana lentiginosa of Shaw, of which he 

 gives in his general Zoology a tolerably good figure, although copied from Cates- 

 by, is perfectly smooth, more resembling a frog than a toad, and therefore well 

 called by him the land frog ; whereas the B. musicus is very rough and makes 

 no approach to a frog in its form and habits. It walks rather than hops. Bar- 

 tram's red toad of Florida was a mere variation of this species, the difference 

 being nothing more than an accidental or voluntary change of color. 



The species figured under the name of Bufo cognatus of Say, in the explora- 

 tion of the Red River of Louisiana by R. B. Marcy, Capt. U. S. A. appears 

 to be this animal. 



B. americanus L. C 1. c. Holbrook 1. c. pi. 4. 



This species like the preceding varies very much in [color; it rather hops 

 than walks. 



B. erythronotus Holbrook, I. c v. pi. 2. 



Not having been able for years to obtain a living specimen of this animal I 

 shall say nothing more of it than that it bears not the sliuhtest resemblance to the 

 Bufo lentiginosus (B. musicus) as stated by Mr. Girard in Proceed. A. N. S. vol. 

 p. 86. 



B. qtjercicus Holbrook, 1. c. v. pi. 3. 



Above thickly covered with small warts,, dusky with a few irregular black 

 spots, many of the warts particularly those on the sides whitish or reddish; a 

 very distinct line of one of these colors runs from the point of the nose along the 

 vertebral column to the vent. Beneath the body is granulate, white, more or 

 less varied particularly on the fore part with black. There is a supraorbital 

 ridge straight and very distinct ; upper jaw slightly emarginate. Thumb equal 

 in length to the first finger, feet with two calli, the interior one exactly resem- 

 bling a toe and equal in length to the first toe. 



Length 1. 1, arm *6, leg I inch. 



Very common in Georgia in wet places, under logs and pieces of wood. 



ENGYSTOMA Fitzinger. 



E. cyrolinense. Microps Wagler, Stenocephalus Tschudi. 



Varying at will very much in color, from dusky to brown, olive-cinereous or 

 yellow cinereous, more or less varied, spotted or speckled with black, beneath 

 pale brownish white, punctate so as to appear spotted. 



Very common in the low country of Georgia under logs. In De Terville's 

 Natural History, Bosc confounds this animal with Daudin's Bufo gibbosus. He 



