Great Plains Toad. Say's Toad. Western 



Toad. Plains Toad. 

 Texas Toad. Western 

 Plains Toad. 



Plate XV. (xf). 1,4. Fe- 

 males. 2, 3. Males. 



Bufo cognatus (Say). 



Range: North Dakota and 

 eastern Montana, southwest 

 across Colorado, Wyoming, 

 Kansas, Utah, the Panhandle 

 of Texas into Mexico and 

 west into eastern California. 



Habitat: Grazing lands or 

 agricultural lands of the 

 Great Plains, along irrigating 

 ditches, flood plains of streams 

 and overflow bottom lands. 



Size: Adults, 1 7/8-4 inches. 

 (Males, 47-95 mm. Females, 

 60-99 mm.). 



General appearance: This is 

 a large broad-bodied toad 

 with a general color of brown, 

 gray or greenish. There is a 

 light mid-dorsal stripe and 

 the back is marked with 

 dark spots. These spots may 

 be broken up and the light 

 areas or borders become more 

 conspicuous so that the toad 

 appears obliquely streaked 

 with light bars on the sides. 

 The spotted condition seems 

 the more common. Often 

 there are four pairs of bright 

 green spots down the back, 

 the pair at the rump leading 

 diagonally to the groin. There 

 are green spots on the legs, 

 and an oblique row of green 

 spots extending backward 

 from the sharply raised pa- 



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