Breeding: They breed from June to July. The eggs are doubtless 

 in strings like those of B. boreas halophilus of California. The tad- 

 poles are small i 1/12 inches (27 mm.). There is no description of them 

 on record. After a tadpole period of 30 to 45 days, they transform 

 from July to September at 3/8-1/2 inch (9.5-12 mm.). 



Notes: British Columbia. "Warts on back show a tendency to run 

 in longitudinal rows. Tibia with one large and one small parotoid- 

 like wart located respectively in the central and the rear cross bars." 

 (Patchy 1922, p. 77). 



British Columbia. "On the nights of June 11 and 12, 1928, these 

 toads were seen in numbers in a large pond on the beach at Kaslo. 

 The males were calling and greatly outnumbered the females; nearly 

 all the specimens collected or examined at the pond were males. One 

 male was seen on the beach in embrace with a dead female which was 

 much dried and shrivelled. . . . 



"A female of 108 mm. taken at Kaslo on June 11, 1928, had ap- 

 parently finished spawning; two other specimens of 81 and 101 mm. 

 taken at Summerland in July, one on the 17th, were full of eggs. A 

 specimen of 93 mm. taken at Lytton between the 1st and 8th of 

 July, 1925, had evidently spawned. 



"On the night of June 12, strings of eggs were found strewn among 

 the grasses in the pond in water six or eight inches deep. The water 

 temperature was 66°F." (Logier, 1932, p. 321). 



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