Cope.l °^-^ . [Oct. 1, 



tent, but of the plan by which it was preserved we have only ob- 

 scure hints. Next to these we should probably place the Chipe- 

 way pictography, as preserved on their meda sticks, bark 

 records, and adjidjiatig or grave-posts. I have examined a num- 

 ber of specimens of these, but have failed to find any evidence 

 that the characters refer to sounds in the language ; however, I 

 should not consider it improbable that further researches should 

 disclose some germs of the ikonomatic method of writing even 

 in these primitive examples of the desire of the human intellect 

 to perpetuate its aquisitions, and hand them down to generations 

 yet unborn. 



Synonymic List of the North American species of Bufo and Rana, with de- 

 scriptions of some new species of Batrachia, from specimens in the National 

 Museum. By E. D. Cope. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 1, 1SS6.) 



BUFO Laur. 

 Bufo punctatus Baird & Girard, Proceedings Academy Philadelphia, 



1852, p. 173. Bufo beldingii Yarrow, Proceedings U. S. National 



Museum, 1882, p. 441. 



Sonoran and Lower Californian regions. 

 Bufo debilis Girard, Proceedings Acad. Philadelphia 1854, p. 87. 



Bufo insidior Girard, Proceedings Academy Philadelphia, 1854, p. 88. 



Sonoran region. 

 Bufo columbiensis Baird & Girard, Proc. Ac. Phila., 1853, p. 378. Bufo 



boreas Baird & Girard, Proc. Ac. Phila., 1852, p. 174. Bufo halophila 



Baird & Girard, Proc. Ac. Phila., 1853, p. 301. Bufo chilensis, part, 



Giinth., Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. , 1868, p. 57. Bufo microscaphus 



Cope, Proc. Ac. Phila., 1866, p. 301. Bufo pictus Cope, Report U. 



S. G. G. Expl. W. of 100th Mer., v, p. 522, pi. xxv, f. 4-5. 



Pacific region ; Western Central region. 

 Bufo compactilis Wiegm., Isis, 1833, p. 661. Anaxyrus melancholicus 



Tschudi, Faun. Per. Ilerp., p. 78, pi. ii, f. 5. Bufo speciosus Girard, 



Proc. Ac. Phila., 1854, p. 86. Bufo anomalus Giinth., Cat. Batr. 



Salien. Brit. Mus., 1868, p. 57. Bufo levifrons Bocourt, Bull. Soc. 



Philom. (7), i, p. 187. Dromoplectrus anomalus Camerano, Atti. 



Ace. Tor. , xiv, p. 882. 



Mexican district ; Texas. 



Bufo alvarius Girard, Baird's Reptilia, U. S. Mexican Boundary Survey, 

 ii, p. 26, pi. xli, f. 1-6. 

 Colorado Desert. 



