linensis; head appearing more pointed than in G. carolinensis, be- 

 cause of depressed body; limbs more slender in G. texensis. 



Voice: It begins its call with a pleasant little whistle and then 

 runs into its bleat. It opens something like whee. 



June 15, 1930, Beeville, Texas, 8:30-9:30 p. m. We finally heard 

 one or two Gastrophryne texensis, a much lower and less carrying 

 note than that of G. carolinensis. 



Breeding: They breed from March 15 to September in heavy rain 

 periods. The egg-mass is a surface film, the complement 645, the 

 eggs, black and white. The egg is 1/30-1/25 inch (0.8-0.9 mm.), the 

 envelope 1/9-1/8 inch (2.8-3 mm.), loose and irregular, possibly 

 merging in the film mass. The grayish olive tadpole is small, 15/16 

 inch (23 mm.), flat and wide, the tail tip black, the eye just visible 

 from the ventral aspect. There are no teeth, no horny mandibles, 

 and no papillae. After a tadpole period of 30 to 50 days, they trans- 

 form from April 15 to October at 2/5-1/2 inch (10-12 mm.). 



Notes: March 24, 1925. Beeville, Tex. In a roadside ditch, 

 Gastrophryne are at the edge, above the water, croaking. We ap- 

 proached one slowly, didn't see him croak, but the instant the light 

 was put on him, he began to crawl up the bank and through the 

 grass, mouse-like, -going very fast. 



July 10, 1925. Fort Davis Mountains. In a large permanent pond 

 two miles south of Fort Davis, we were much surprised to find one 

 lone narrow-mouthed toad tadpole, a mature one. Strecker credits 

 the Texas narrow-mouth to East-Central, Central and Southern 

 Texas. W 7 e know of no other record of this Gastrophryne this far 

 westward. 





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