California Toad. Salt-marsh Frog. Baird's 



Toad. Common Toad. 



Plate XII. (xj). I. Male. 



2, 3. Females. 



Bufo boreas halophilus 

 (Baird and Girard). 



Range: Western Nevada, 

 central and southern coastal 

 California and northern 

 Lower California. 



Habitat: Open valleys, 

 rarely wooded areas. In high 

 mountains, found in wet 

 meadows and along lake 

 shores. 



Size: Adults, 2 2/5-4 5/8 

 inches. (Males, 62-101 mm. 

 Females, 60-116 mm.). 



General appearance: This is 

 a large stocky toad with short 

 limbs, green or greenish 

 brown with a light streak 

 down the back, and the back 

 mottled with irregular dark 

 areas which surround the 

 warts singly or in irregular 

 groups. The warts are 

 rounded and the skin be- 

 tween the warts quite 

 smooth. The white or yel- 

 lowish under parts are in 

 some individuals blotched 

 with black. 



Structure: No cranial crests 

 (except occasionally in very 

 large individuals); parotoids 

 elongate, widely separated; 

 two large metatarsal tuber- 

 cles, inner with a free blunt 

 end; spread of hind foot usu- 

 ally less than 36 per cent of 

 head and body length; glands 

 on tibia present; no external 



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