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(Yuma), the Salton Sea Basin (Agua Dulce), southern Arizona 

 (Nogales), and northern Sonora; and east through the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region to the Badlands of South Dakota, the Loup fork of the 

 Platte River in Nebraska, northeastern Kansas (Doniphan County), 

 the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma (Okmulgee, Pushmataha, 

 and McCurtain Counties), southern Texas (Haj^s and Bexar Counties) 

 and along the Rio Grande west of the mouth of the Pecos River 

 (Brewster and El Paso Counties) ; and thence to southern Chihuahua 

 (vSanta Rosalia). 



Remarks.— The misstatements in regard to the type of Bufo dorsalis 

 and the assumed type of Bufo woodhousii published by Cope in his 

 "Batrachia of North America" have 

 been corrected by Doctor Stejneger.^' 

 The actual type of Bujo dorsalis (U. 

 S.N.M. No. 2531) is still extant and 

 was collected in October, 1851, on San 

 Francisco Mountain, Coconino County, 

 Ariz., by Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, who 

 accompanied Capt. L. Sitgreaves on 

 the expedition down the Zuni and Col- 

 orado Rivers. Girard found that the 

 name Bvfo dorsalis was preoccupied 

 by an earlier application of dorsalis by 

 Spix to a toad found in the province 

 of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and therefore 

 he proposed Bvfo woodhousii as a sub- 

 stitute name. Both of these specific 

 names are based on the same type 

 specimen. 



No specific type locality for Bufo 

 frontosus is given in the original de- 

 scription, except for a rather general 

 one — "Territory of Arizona" — wliich 

 appears in the introductory remarks, 

 reprinted by Dr. Elliott Coues in his "Synopsis of the Reptiles and 

 Batracliians of Arizona," and the following is added: "One speci- 

 men from Los Pinos, Rio Grande, N. Mex. [ = Valencia County, N. 

 Mex.l; type of the species." This specimen was collected in 1864 

 by Coues, whose collection and field notes were placed in the hands of 

 Professor Cope. There is no record that indicates that the type of 

 Bufo frontosus was ever sent to the National Museum by Coues, and 

 it is possible that it may have been sent direct to Cope. At any event 



» Stejneger, L., Annotated list of reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and Vernon 

 Bailey on the San Francisco Mountain Plateau and desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona, with descriptions 

 of new species. North Amer. Fauna No. 3, pt. 5, pp. 116, 117, Sept. 11, 1890. 



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Figure 16.— Head of Bujo woodhousii (U.S. 

 N.M. No. 2531) from San Francisco Moun- 

 tain, Ariz.: a, Lateral view; b, dorsal view. 

 Type specimen 



The original description is 



