Bujo quercicus 113 



Loennberg (1895, P- 5.^^) in 1892 and 1893 found it "very abundant on the 

 dry sand hills about Oakland, Orange County, as well as in the 'flatwood' 

 about Kissimee, Osceola County and in Hillsboro County". 



Brimley (1909, p. 133) of Lake ElHs region had "About a half dozen taken 

 in drier situations in May 1908 (also taken by Sherman on Shackleford's 

 Banks, near Beaufort, N. C. in June 1901.)" The same author (1910, p. u) 

 "received (it) from Hastings, Orlando, Green Cove Springs and St. Peters- 

 burg, all in Florida. Evidently common at the first and last two places". 



Ten miles south of Jacksonville, Florida, in 191 1 and 191 2 R. L. Deckert 

 makes the observation that "Bufo quercicus Holbrook (is) common, in com- 

 panies in temporary water, or scattered on cultivated ground". 



In Alabama Loding (1922, p. 17) writes "In Mobile County this little toad 

 is rather common in high sandy locations with Scrub Oak and Palmetto under- 

 growth". 



In Louisiana in 1923 (p. 37) Viosca places this species in his "Division 4, 

 Longleaf Pine Flats" of "The Uplands". This Division he characterizes as 

 follows: "Abruptly bordering the pine hills on the south, lies this strip of fiat 

 lands characterized by a beautiful stand of longleaf pine interspersed with 

 loblolly. The streams here, because of the lower elevation, are normally slug- 

 gish and often spread out over low areas forming swampy situations. These 

 are characterized by swamp magnoHa in the shallower areas and tupelo in the 

 more permanent swamps. — Typically the country is north Floridian, rather 

 than Louisianian, and several Southeastern species, not found elsewhere i'n 

 our State, have congenial habitats here. Bufo quercicus, Bufo terrestris and 

 Hyla gratiosa are significant examples". 



In 191 2 we wrote of their habitat somewhat as follows: "This little toad 

 was found on the outskirts of the swamp in the cut-over lands where few pines 

 remain and where the cover was solely low heaths. Here at noon when we 

 arrived these creatures were hopping about little mindful of the sun. On 

 Honey Island we took them on the sandy soil where the pines were abundant 

 and on Billy's Island they occurred on the unshaded cleared cultivated fields 

 of the Lee's. They seemed to have no particular preference for shade or ex- 

 posure and apparently were quite generally distributed. The few specimens 

 in our collection are not due to their scarcity so much as to our neglect. One 

 might think them quite terrestrial from their spinose exterior but not only on 

 the drier and higher outskirts did we find them but also on the islands and 

 near their swampy edges. In fact, we even recorded some on the little islets 

 of Honey Island Prairie." 



After our 1921 and 1922 studies we think of this form as an essentially 

 abundant pine barrens species though occurring in hammocks and elsewhere. 



FIRST APPEARANCE 



In 191 2 we found them when we entered the swamp the last week in May. 

 In 192 1 we record them as early as April 25 when we entered the region and in 

 1922 we arrived June 13-14 when they were out in full force. Some of the 

 U. S. National Museum material was taken in April, such as: 



