2 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis 



and Bufo fowleri Putnam. In his "Batrachia of North 

 America," published in 1889, Cope' gave considerable 

 space to Bufo lentiginosus foivleri. In this publication 

 he stated (page 279) that it "is so far known only as a 

 native of a few ponds in northeastern Massachusetts 

 near the town of Danvers," and further commented that 

 ''such a limited distribution of a land vertebrate is re- 

 markable, as is also the fact of its having so long re- 

 mained without an introduction to science. ' ' 



Since the publication of Cope's checklist the range, 

 or better the recognition, of Bufo fowleri has been con- 

 siderably extended. Up to 1906 we find ''Bufo fowleri 

 reported only from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and 

 New York near the coast. ' '® 



About 1907 Miss Dickerson identified it as the most 

 common form about Washington, D. C.,^ and a year later 

 Allard recorded it as abundant in northern Geo^gia^ In 

 1910 Miller and Chapin^ reported it to be the only toad in 

 southern and eastern New Jersey and on Staten Island, 

 and also recorded its presence in the mountainous part 

 of New York. Finally, in the summer of 1916, Dunn'" 

 found the species common in the mountains of North 

 Carolina but not ascending to an elevation of more than 

 2700 feet. 



It will be apparent from this brief review that by 

 ]917 abundant evidence had accumulated to show that 

 the range of Bufo fowleri includes a region reaching 

 from southern New Hampshire to northern Georgia and 

 extending westward at least as far as the Appalachian 

 Mountains. It is interesting to find now that the range 



5. Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum, No. 34. 



6. Mary C. Dickerson: The Frog Book, 1906. 



7. According to H. A. Allard: Science N, S, vol. XXVI, pp. 383-384 



1907. 



8. H. A. Allard: Bufo Foioleri (Putnam) in Northern Georgia 



Science, N. S. XXVIII, pp. 655-656, 1908. 



9. W. De W. Miller and James Chapin: The Toads of the North 



eastern United States. Science, N. S. vol. XXXII, pp. 315-316 

 1910. 

 10. Emmett R. Dunn: Bull. Amer. Museum of Natural History, Octo 

 ber 13, 1917. 



