296 : BUFONID. 
forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 
the eye. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly porous warts ; 
paratoids short, subtriangular, depressed. Olive above, marbled 
with darker ; a light vertebral line; belly spotted with blackish. 
California. 
soe California. 
b-c. Yg. Fraser River. H.M.S. ‘ Plumper.’ 
24, Bufo boreas. 
Bufo boreas, Bard & Gir. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 174; Girard, 
U.S. Expl. Exped., Herp. p. 74, pl. 6. £. 4-9. 
Bufo columbiensis, Baird § Gir. Proc, Ac. Philad, 1858, p. 378; 
Girard, l.c. p. 77, pl. 5. f. 4-9. 
Lower surface of foot. 
Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; interorbital 
space flat, or slightly concave, as broad as the upper eyelid; tym- 
panum very distinct, half the width of the eye. First finger not 
extending beyond second; toes entirely webbed or nearly so, with 
double subarticular tubercles (generally only under the last phalanges 
of the longest toe); two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal 
fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 
tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the nostril in males, the tym- 
panum or eye in females. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly 
porous warts ; parotoids short, subtriangular or suboval, depressed. 
Olive above, marbled with darker; generally a light vertebral line ; 
belly more or less spotted with blackish. Male with a subgular” 
vocal sac. ; 
California ; Montana. 
a. od. Fort Halket. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 
b-d, e. Many spec., Sumass Prairies. Boundary Commission [C. }. 
Q & yg. 
ees Vancouver's Island. Lieut.-Col. Hawkins [C.]. 
g. Several spec., S. Juan, Orcas Is- Voy. of H.M.S. ¢ Plumper.’ 
yg. lands. Dr. Lyall [C. ]. 
h-v. Q. California, Mr. Gruber [C.]. 
