cases several tips to one wart. There is an oblique black bar on 

 either eyelid ahead of which is a prominent light band across the 

 top of the head. Their backs are greenish gray with several dark 

 tuberculate spots and in a toad that has recently shed its skin, 

 there is a row of conspicuous light tubercles on the side, bordered 

 above and below by irregular black lines. The venter is a clear bluish 

 white in strong contrast to the back. In the young, the light and dark 

 areas of the head and back are strongly contrasted. 



Structure: Parotoids wider and longer (width in length 1.75-2) 

 than in B. cognatus (width in length 1.5-1.8); parotoids broadly oval, 

 divergent; parotoid interval wide, twice the width of one gland; snout 

 vertical in profile; cranial crests lacking, occasionally a postorbital 

 bar being present and the posterior end of the cranial valley slightly 

 suggesting embossment. In young specimens there may be a slight 

 indication of cranial crests approximating in front, as in B. cognatus; 

 much smaller than Bufo cognatus; one cutting metatarsal tubercle 

 and one small one; femur short; foot about one-half webbed; hind 

 legs long; half or more of femur free from body skin. 



Voice: Its call is a sweet trill. 



Breeding: "The end of May and the first part of June appear to 

 be the breeding season of ca/ifornicus." (G. S. Myers, 1930, p. 77). 



Notes: "In San Diego next day we visited Mr. Klauber and he had 

 a number of live adults of calijornicus obtained at Rincon, San Diego 

 County, a few days previously. He says they are easily caught on 

 sandy or gravelly stretches in the bottoms of washes along the streams. 

 If one stands still in the dark in early everting in such localities, 

 particularly in the vicinity of growths of oak, the toads finally begin 

 to move about and can then be found by quick use of the flashlight 

 in the direction of the rustle of the dead leaves." (G. S. Myers, 

 1930, p. 76). 



March 25, 1930. Our experiences with these toads in life have 

 been entirely with material sent us by Mr. L. M. Klauber. At present 

 we have four, two males and two females in our toad garden. During 

 the day they keep themselves buried in the moist soil with just their 

 heads out. They are not always sleeping, however, as they promptly 

 stir if an ant is thrown near them. Toward evening they are more 

 active and hop around. One toad seems to have adopted an evening 

 perch in a pot of Herb Robert. During the evenings, the males some- 

 times give brief calls, just enough to suggest their little trill. 



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