MEXICAN TAILLESS AMPHIBIANS 



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Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — From Mexican boundary south to Atemajac in Tabasco, 

 to Tupataro in Michoacan, Xochimilco in Federal District, and to 

 Potrero in Vera Cruz. Reported from Ciudad, Durango (Forrer). 

 In Southern United States, disregarding a doubtful record for south- 

 western Kansas, we may say that the range of this toad extends from 

 the Red River Valley in southeastern Oldahoma (Frederick, Tillman 

 County) south through the middle district of Texas (Upper Wichita 

 River) west of the timber belt and east of the plains to McLennan, 

 Burnet, Kendall, Austin, Colorado, Bexar, Goliad, Victoria, Refugio, 

 Nueces, Starr, and Cameron Counties; northwest along the Rio 

 Grande drainage through Kinney, Val Verde, and Reeves Counties to 

 El Paso County, Tex.; northward in New 

 Mexico along the Rio Grande to the Mim- 

 bres Mountains and to Albuquerque; in 

 southeastern Arizona (Huachuca Moun- 

 tains, Cochise County), as well as in Mari- 

 copa, Yavapai, and Mohave Counties; and 

 in extreme southwestern Utah (Washington 

 County). 



Remarks. — The type of Wiegmann's Bufo 

 compactilis (M. N. B. No. 3528) was col- 

 lected in Mexico by two botanical collectors, 

 Ferdinand Deppe and C. J. W. Schiede. 

 The ground color of the upperparts of the 

 type is very light, although the mottling is 

 dark; underparts white, with a few scattered 

 dark spots on chest; vertical black bars on d 



upper lip quite distinct; interorbital band figurk s.—Read ot bu/o compactuis 



T 1 , T 1 •!• J i u-i 1 (U.S.N.M. No. 2611) from Pes- 



hght colored; SUpraClliary and pOStorbltal quiena Grande, Nuevo Leon, Mex- 

 CrestS distinct; a cluster of minute warts ico: a, Lateral view; 6, dorsal view. 



occupies the position of the parietal crest; otype specimen 

 parotoid glands elongated and in contact with postorbital crests, not- 

 withstanding the presence of a rather prominent knoblike supra tym- 

 panic crest; head relatively small; body wide and squat; skin of 

 upperparts warty, with numerous small tubercles; length of body 

 approximately 65 mm. 



Three specimens are designated in the National Museum catalogue 

 as the CO types of Girard's Bnfo speciosus. One of these (No. 2611) 

 was collected by Lieut. D.N. Couch during April, 1853, at Pesquieria 

 Grande, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and was figured by Baird in his report 

 on the reptiles of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. 

 The viscera of this specimen have been removed through an abdominal 

 opening, and the lower jaws have been cut away from the head at the 

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