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Southern Toad. Carolina Toad. Grey Toad. 



Land-frog (Bartram). 

 Land-toad (Catesby). 

 Latreille'sToad. Charm- 

 ing Toad. Hop Toad. 



Plate XXIII. I. Male 

 (Xf). 2. Male (xf). 3, 4- 

 Males croaking (xi). 5. Fe- 

 male (xf). 



Bufo terrestris (Bonnaterre) . 



Range: North Carolina to 

 Florida, west to the Missis- 

 sippi River. 



Habitat: Particularly 

 abundant in cultivated fields. 

 Breeds in shallow water, 

 sometimes tiny transient 

 pools, sometimes the edges 

 of lakes. 



Size: Adults, 1 5/8-3 5/8 

 inches. (Males, 42-82 mm. 

 Females, 44-92 mm.). 



General appearance: They 

 vary in color from red or 

 gray to black. The crests on 

 the head are prominently 

 raised at the rear into club- 

 like prominences or knobs. 

 The skin between the larger 

 warts is finely and uniformly 

 roughened with tubercles all 

 over, including the eyelids 

 and parotoids. 



Structure: Prominent knob- 

 like crests; backs of thumb 

 and second finger of male 

 have excrescences and also 

 on inner edge of the third 

 finger; female throat usually 

 light; male throat usually 

 dark; pectoral region may be 

 heavily spotted, sometimes 

 only a median spot. 



wt, 



74 



