12 ZOOLOGY. 



Spto. Ch*r. — Uniform blui«h lend color above; uuiruriii yelloHiiih white beneath. Three pairs of frontal plates. Middle 

 pair united with the loral, and thus extending to the labials. Labials nut entering into the orbit. Dorsal scales in 45 rows. 



Upper Willamette valley, Oregon. Dr. Newberry. 



BUFO COLUMBIENSIS, B. & G. 



Biifo columbiensis, li. & G. Pr. A. N. Sc. VI, lc53, 37d.— Girakd, Herp. U. S. E.\. Ex. 1658, 77; pi. v, figs. 4—9. 



Spko. CHAR.^Upper surface of head plane, skin adhering to the skull and granulated. Parotids and tympanum email. A 

 niembrauous tarsal fold. Toes palmated. Color light greenish with black blotches and reddish spots. A dorsal white Titta. 

 An obliijue dark patch beneath the eye. Beneath soiled yellow, spotted. — (Girard.) 



2578. Upper Pit river. — 2580. Upper Klamath. Dr. Newberry. 



SCAPHIOPUS HAMMONDII, B a i r d . 

 Plate XXVIII, Fig. 2. 



Spec. Chur. — Tongue very large, orbicular, without notch behind. Spade highly developed. Color above dark olive brown, 

 with very indistinct blotches of darker. Summits of dorsal pustulatiuu whitish. Beneath whitish, the chin black. Head and 

 body two inches long. Hind leg 2^. 



This species is easily distinguished by its nearly uniform and very dark color, without the 

 light lines of S. holbrooJcii, figured for comparison on figure 1 of the same plate. The tongue 

 a])pears to be much broader. 



3C95. Fort Beading, California. Dr. J. F. Hammond, U. S. A. 



HYLA EEGILLA, B. & G. 



Plate XXVIII, Figs. 3. 



lli/lurei/itlu, B. &G. Pr. A. N. Sc VI, 16,52, 174.— In. J653, 301.— Girard, Herp. U. S. Ex. Ex. 1858, 60 ; pi. iii, 



figs. 13—18. 

 Hi/la acapulaiM, Hallowell, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, 1852, 183. 



Spec. Char. — Olive or aehy green, coarsely marked on each side with blotches in two longitudinal series, bordered on either 

 fide with scattered smaller and more rounded ones. A trinngular bhitch between the eye. A dark narrow line from snout to 

 eye ; a broad postocular vitta to the arm, beneath which is a bar of grayish white about half the width. Dorsal blotches 

 sometimes wanting. 



3229. Yreka, California, and 3231, Klamath lake. Dr. Newberry. 



KANA BOYLII, Baird. 



Rana hoylii, Baird, Pr. A. N. So. VII, April, 1654, 62. 



Spec. Char — A broad depressed ridge of skin on each side of back. Skin finely tubercular above. Head broader than long. 

 Tympanum scarcely evident, pustulated. Tibia more than half the length of body ; hind foot less than half this length; webbed 

 entirely to the horny tips; outer toe decidedly longer than the third. An elongated tubercle at base of inner toe, with another 

 opposite to it. Above dull reddish olivaceous, with iudistiuct blotches on the back, and fasciae on the legs. Beneath yellowish, 

 mottled anteriorly. Two inches long. 



Sacramento river. Dr. Newberry. 



AMBLYSTOMA CALIFORNIENSE, Gray. 



Plate XXX, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. 



Amllyslomn califomiensi, Grat, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lood. Jan. 1653, 11 ; pi. vii. 

 Si' EC. Char. — Black. Sides of lips, lower part of neck, body and tail, and limbs, with large white spots. Palatine teeth ioaa 



