16 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



FAMILY : SCAPHIOPODIDAE 



GENUS: SCAPHIOPUS. Hoibrook. 



SCAPHIOPUS HOLBROOKII HOLBROOKII (Hr.rlan) 

 Hermit Spadefoot 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



General distribution : Eastern States, Massachusetts 

 to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



Alabama records : Mobile County. 



This species has only been taken rarely and always 

 singly, until in the late fall of 1918, when I caught six 

 specimens in and about the boiler pit of my greenhouses. 



FAMILY : BUFONIDAE 



GENUS: BUFO, Laurenti. 



BUFO AMERICANUS Hoibrook 



(B. lentiginosus atnericanus , Cope) 



American Toad 



Type locality : "From Maine through all the Atlantic 

 States." 



General distribution : Eastern North America from 

 Hudson Bay southward. 



Alabama records : I have no definite records or iden- 

 tifications of this toad for the State. 



BUFO FOWLERI Garman {B. lentiginosus foxvleri, Cope) 

 Fowler's Toad 



Type locality : "Manitoba to Winnipeg; Massachu- 

 setts." 



General distribution : New England and New York, 

 southward to Georgia, west to Michigan. 



Alabama records : Calhoun, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile 

 counties. 



BUFO QUERCICUS Hoibrook 

 Oak Toad 



Type locality: Charleston, South Carolina and 

 Smithville (now Southport), North Carolina. 



