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11. BUFO CALAMITA. 



(Plate XIII.) 



Rosel, Hist. Ran., p. 107, pi. xxiv (1758). 



Bufo calamita, Laurenti, Syn. Rept., p. 27, pi. i, fig. 1 (1768); 

 Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap., p. 77, pi. xxviii, fig. 1 (1803), 

 and Hist. Rept., viii, p. 153 (1803); Pennant, Brit. Zool., 

 iii, p. 24 (1812); Gravenhorst, Delic. Mus. Vratisl., p. 65 

 (1829) ; Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital, Anf. (1838); Bell, Brit. 

 Rept., p. 116, fig. (1839); Nilsson, Skand. Faun., A inf., 

 p. 104 (1842) ; Giinther, Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 57 (1858) ; Bruch, 

 Wiirzb. Naturw. Zeitschr., iii, 1862, p. 185; Ward, Intellec- 

 tual Observer, v, 1864, p. 227, pi. — ; Steenstrup, Vidensk. 

 MeddeL, 1869, pp. 8 & 20, fig.; Collin, Naturh Tidsskr. 

 (3). vi, 1869, p. 342; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii, p. 402 (1872) ; 

 Koch, Ber. Senck. Ges., 1872, p. 166; Schveiber, Herp. Eur., 

 p. 141 (1875); Lataste, Herp. Gir., p. 291 (1876); Leydig, 

 An. Batr., p. 36 (1877); Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 

 p. 547, and Cat. Batr. Ecaud., p. 293 (1882); Heron-Royer, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 29, and Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. 

 Angers (2). xvi, 1887, p. 122; Greening, Yorkshire Naturalist, 

 1888, p. 357; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1889, p. 401, 

 and Batr. Rept. Portug., p. 13 (1889); Heron-Royer & 

 Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., ix. 1889, p. 295; Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 614, pi. xlvi, fig. 6; Martin & 

 Rollinat. Vert. Dep. Indre, p. 343 (1894); Werner, Rept. 

 Auiph. Oesterr.-Ung , p. 100 (1897); Durigen, Deutschl. 

 Amph., p. 494, pi. i, fig. 3 (1897). 



Bana fetidissima, Hermann, Tab. Affin. Anim., p. 260 (1783). 



Rana portentosa (Blumenbach), Sturm, Deutschl. Faun., iii, 

 Heft 1 (1797). 



Bufo cruciatus, Schneider, Hist. Aniph.. i, p. 193 (1799). 



Bana mephitica, Shaw. Gen. Zool., iii, p. 149, pi. xli* (1802). 



Bufo rubeta, Fleming, Brit. Anim., p. 159 (1828). 



Bufo portentosus, Schinz, Faun. Helv., p. 144 (1837). 



Bufo viridis, part., Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen., viii, p. 681 

 (1841). 



Epidalea calamita, Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev., 1865, p. 102. 



Head once and one-fourth to once and two-fifths as 

 broad as long ; snout short and blunt, with indistinct 

 canthus and slightly concave loreal regions, as long as 

 or a little shorter than the diameter of the orbit ; 

 nostrils equally distant from the eyes and the tip of 

 the snout, or a little nearer the former ; eyes nearly 

 equally distant from the tip of the snout and the 

 angles of the jaws ; interorbital space flat and narrow, 



