thick. The color description of a female taken at Ephraim, Utah, 

 Aug. 19, 1929, is as follows: The back is light grayish olive becoming 

 on the sides and fore and hind legs tea green; the tympanum, pea 

 green, the parotoid, vetiver green or light grayish olive; the crests are 

 clove brown or fuscous; the spots on upper parts are fuscous becoming 

 on sides dark ivy green or dull greenish black. There are no very 

 regular spots on either side of the back. Each fuscous spot on dorsum is 

 warty centered, the wart being drab or hair brown. On the sides, the 

 spotting is more pronounced and wart-centered. The forearm has at' 

 least two oblique cross bars; the tibia has two or three indistinct cross 

 bars; the under parts are deep olive buff or cream buff; the under side 

 of hind legs is pinkish cinnamon. The iris is fuscous spotted with 

 vinaceous cinnamon and sulphur yellow or marguerite yellow. The 

 marguerite yellow pupil rim is broken behind and in front. 



Structure: Cranial crests, prominent, forming right angle back of 

 orbit; longitudinal ridges almost parallel; supratympanic or pre- 

 parotoid ridge absent; parotoid glands long, slender, divergent; 

 interparotoid space more than twice the interorbital space; two 

 metatarsal tubercles, one very large, one very small; throat of male 

 black from line of angle of mouth forward; first finger slightly longer 

 than second; large warts on back, each with several pits; this toad is 

 larger than B. americanus. 



Voice: The vocal sac is a rounded throat pouch. The call is a 

 vibrating note of high pitch, sweet and musical. 



Breeding: They breed from March to July. The eggs have not 

 been described and the tadpoles are little known. They transform 

 March 25 to September at 2/5-3/5 inch (10-13. 5 mm.). 



Notes: July 9, 191 7. Western Texas. Quite a rain near Sierra 

 Blanca. The toads are large forms. They are Bufo compacti/is, Bufo c. 

 cognatus and Bufo woodhousii. 



July 24, 1925. At Duncan, Arizona, the engineer at the electric 

 light plant told me of several 'big' toads at the plant. We went over. 

 They were all female Bufo woodhousii. He said they would hop up 

 on the door sill and wait for insects to drop from the wall below the 

 light. Why are they all females? Have the males gone to ponds since 

 the recent rains? All these females are ripe, not spent. 



"Coche County, Utah, August 1921. Among these enemies of the 

 sugar-beet webworm were astonishing numbers of our common 

 toad, Bufo woodhousii Girard. Most of the toads were of this year's 

 brood, ranging in length from one and a fourth to one and a half 

 inches. I would estimate that in one field of about one square acre 

 there were no fewer than one hundred toads. . . . These small toads 

 contained from 24 to 40 worms each, the limiting factor in quantity 

 being the size of the stomach." (Pack, Copeia, 1922, p. 46-47). 



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