MEXICAN TAILLESS AMPHIBIANS 9 



the Valleys of Mexico and Toluca in 1884 and 1885. Alphonso 

 Forrer, another one of Godman's collectors, sent specimens collected 

 in 1885 at Ciiidad in Durango and at the Presidio de Mazatlan in 

 Sinaloa. 



During March and April, 1891, William Lloyd, a field naturahst 

 employed by the Bureau of Biological Survey, obtained a few amphib- 

 ians near the Mexican boundary in the States of Nuevo Leon and 

 Tamaulipas. Pierre Louis Jouy, an ornithological collector employed 

 to obtain specimens for the National Museum exhibit at the Chicago 

 World's Columbian Exposition, brought back a few specimens taken 

 in February, 1892, at Lake Chapala in Jalisco. 



Maj. E. A. Mearns was detailed by the Vv^ar Department to act 

 as the medical officer of the International Boundary Commission, and 

 in the course of his work he traversed the entire boundary line and 

 collected a number of amphibians at localities along it. He reported 

 for duty at El Paso, Tex., on February 1, 1892, and completed the 

 work of the biological section on July 20, 1894, at San Diego, Calif. 

 A few amphibians taken in Sonora in 1893 were received from an 

 army hospital steward, Ernest C. Merton. 



Dr. Edward Palmer, a well-known professional botanical collector, 

 in 1896 forwarded specimens collected in Durango. Dr. Charles 

 Haskins Townsend collected at Frontera in Tabasco during April, 

 1897. General herpetological collections were made in Chihuahua 

 during 1895 by H. H. and C. S. Brimley. The late J. N. Rose, a 

 botanist employed by the National Museum, and his assistant J. H. 

 Painter collected in Jalisco in 1903. 



From 1908 to 1923, a few amphibians were received from entomolo- 

 gists, as follows: In 1908, Frederick Knab collected at Cordoba, Vera 

 Cruz; in 1918, J. A. Kusche at Venodio, Sinaloa; in 1920, W. S. 

 Blatchley at Orizaba, Vera Cruz; and, in 1923, Dr. Wilham M. Mann 

 at Tepic, Nayarit. A Phyllomedusa helenae taken at Berta, Vera 

 Cruz, in 1910 was purchased from Charles R. Orcutt. Surg. J. C. 

 Thompson collected a Hyla baudinii at San Bias, Nayarit, in 1913. A 

 few specimens taken at Nogales, Sonora, in 1919, were received from 

 American Consul Francis J. Dyer. 



MATERIAL IN OTHER MUSEUMS 



American. — The writer was enabled, while a member of the staff 

 of the Bureau of Biological Survey, to visit several American insti- 

 tutions for the purpose of studjdng their collections of Mexican 

 amphibians. A large number of important distributional records 

 were obtained from these collections. 



The Mexican herpetological collection of the American Museum of 

 Natural History in New York ranks next to that of the United States 

 National Museum in size and includes specimens received from 



