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"Habitat. — This species appears to be common throughout the 

 region studied, becoming more abundant as the altitude, and hence 

 humidity, increases. A few specimens were taken at 1800 feet and 

 more between 3000 and 3200 feet near Barahona. Other specimens 

 were taken at 2400 feet near Paradis, 3700 feet near Polo, and 3000 

 feet at Maniel Viejo. They were usually found in the ends of hollow 

 stems and other cavities such as the base of banana leaves and certain 

 mountain palms though occasionally they were discovered among 

 damp leaves and stones on the ground." 



A paratype, A.M.N.H. No. 44657, from north of Polo, Dominican 

 Republic, taken on October 19, 1932, by W. G. Hassler, has the follow- 

 ing points of difference from the description of the type: Head as long 

 as broad ; tympanum separated from eye by an interval equal to half 

 its own diameter; adpressed heel reaching to center of eye; outer 

 finger disk equal to two-thirds the tympanic diameter; tongue dis- 

 tinctly emarginate behind; posterior surface of thighs wood brown 

 with many small darker spots; abdomen nearly immaculate: Head 

 and body, 28 mm.; head length, 10 mm.; head width, 10 mm.; foreleg, 

 18 mm.; hindleg from vent, 42 mm.; vent to heel, 23 mm.; tibia, 13 

 mm.; eye, 4 mm.; tympanum, 2 mm. 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS BAKERI Cochran 



Figure 27 



1935. Eleutherodactylus bakeri Cochran, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, 

 No. 6, p. 369.— Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 101, 1937. 



Original description. — "Diagnosis. — Belly and thighs heavily gran- 

 ular; upper eyelid without a spinelike tubercle; fingers and toes 

 rounded at the tips ; snout blunt, rather truncate in profile, not shovel 

 shaped; femur rather short; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching to 

 posterior corner of eye. 



"Type— M.C.Z. 19,837, an adult from Mt. La Hotte, Haiti, 5,000 

 to 7,800 feet altitude, collected in October, 1934, by P. J. Darlington. 



"Description of the type. — Tongue moderate, scarcely emarginate 

 behind; vomerine teeth in two short, heavy, slanting series behind 

 the choanse, rather narrowly separated on the midline, their outer 

 borders not extending beyond the center of the choanse; head very 

 broad, its greatest width about one and one-half times the distance 

 from end of snout to occiput, with a pronounced swelling on each 

 side of the occiput; no subgular pouch evident, although a slight 

 •trace of a fold occurs on the chest between the forelimbs; nostril 

 much nearer snout than eye, its distance from eye equal to diameter 

 of the latter; upper eyelid one-half the interorbital width; tympanum 

 equal to two-thirds the diameter of the eye, its distance from the eye 

 equal to its own diameter; fingers and inner toes free; a vestige of a 



