82 Sbreckei — Reptiles and Batrachians of Texas. 



Bufo punctatus Baird and Girard. 



<rnTTF.Ii TOAD. 



This is our rarest Bufo. In the fall of 1904 I found my first specimen 

 under a log in the Brazos bottom. Two years later my friend Rohrer col- 

 lected a second example, and in May, 1907, I captured a third. The last 

 specimen was collected at night, in a ditch in which numerous specimens 

 of Scaphiopus couchii, Bufo <l<Lilix, and Engystoma carolinense were 

 breeding. 



Bufo compactilis Wiegmann. 



SPADE-FOOTED TOAD. 

 This is another toad of peculiar habits and on this account was long 

 overlooked. In June, 1905, T found two specimens anions some trash, in 

 the small park across the creek from the University. The next month I 

 obtained two more which were attracted by the light of the lantern I was 

 using while sugaring for moths, near the same place. These specimens 

 were all collected in damp weather. In May, 1906, I decided to keep a 

 sharp lookout fortius species and spent two nights in collecting around 

 the electric lights, but the only toads I found were specimens of americanus 

 and valliceps. A few days later we had a series of heavy rains and I tried 

 my luck again, with the result that I collected twenty-five specimens of 

 compactilis in less than two hours. Rince then I have obtained a great 

 many more, but always in damp weather. 



Hyla cinerea Daudin. 



GREEN TREE-FRO<;. 

 This beautiful green tree-frog is not common in the near vicinity of 

 Waco, but it is quite abundant in the post-oak country and at Laguna 

 Lake. 



Hyla versicolor chrysoscelis Cope. 



WESTERN TREE-FR<>(, 

 This variety of the common eastern tree-frog is exceedingly rare in cen- 

 tral Texas. During my fourteen years of collecting in this county I have 

 only captured three examples. * 



Chorophilus triseriatus Wied. 

 STRIPED TREE-FROG. 



Two color varieties of this species occur in the vicinity of Waco — a large 

 spotted form and the ordinary striped one. In April when these frogs go 

 into the water to breed they fairly swarm in the marshes. On one occa- 

 sion I collected more than forty specimens at Dry Pond in less than an 

 hour's time. I formerly considered the spotted specimens as representing 

 a subspecies I ( '. triseriatus clarhii Baird ami < Jirard ), hut the examination 

 of a Large series of examples from Illinois and Texas convinces me that 

 this variety is not worthy of recognition. I have found Chorophilus tri- 

 seriatus breeding in temporary pools as well as more permanent bodies of 

 water. 



