Yosemite Toad. Yosemite Park Toad. 



Plate XIV. (xf). i, 2 ,5. 

 Males. 3, 4. Females. 



Bufo canorus Camp. 



Range: Yosemite National 

 Park, high central Sierra 

 Nevada, 7,000-11,000 feet 

 altitude. 



Habitat: Wet mountain 

 meadows, margins of streams 

 and lakes. 



Size: Adults, 2-3 inches. 

 (Males, 50-64 mm. Females, 

 57-75 mm.). 



General appearance: This 

 small toad has a moist skin. 

 The male is an almost uni- 

 form yellowish olive to oli- 

 vaceous black with a broken 

 thread of yellow down the 

 mid-back. The black dotted 

 borders of the darker mark- 

 ings and dark areas around 

 the warts are evident to 

 greater or less degree as the 

 toad is lighter or darker in 

 color. These may be out- 

 lined by broken threads of 

 yellow, a delicate tracery. 

 Along the sides may be a 

 yellowish band. The paro- 

 toids may be marked with 

 russet. In the female, the 

 general background color is a 

 light greenish gray marked 

 with many inky black areas. 

 This background may vary 

 from a pale ash gray to dark 

 brown. When the female is 

 dark, she does not look so un- 

 like the male. The snout, top 

 of head, arms and legs are 

 distinctly spotted. The sides 



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