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The banks of Laundry Creek, flowing into Lake Cushman, had 

 been recently logged for some distance and no adults were taken 

 on this cleared slope, though several were captured just above it. 

 A low temperature and cold water are evidently necessary for the 

 welfare of the species, for they died very quickly when placed in 

 the sunlight. By putting fresh ice water on them at short intervals 

 we were able to bring two, collected on August 8, to Michigan 

 alive. They lived in an ice box until September ii, when they 

 were preserved. They refused to eat in captivity. The stomach 

 contents consist almost entirely of unidentifiable beetle elytra 

 and spider fragments. 



The appearance of the toads has been well described by 

 Stejneger and Van Denburgh. The elongated gland on the body, 

 mentioned in the type description, is frequently lacking or is broken 

 up into a row of large glandules, and the pupil is a vertical, almost 

 round oval. In live specimens there is a considerable range of 

 color variation which is rather difficult to describe. The following 

 color^ notes were made on a live female: back cacao brown, light 

 spot on head pinkish cinnamon, warts on sides and legs cinnamon 

 buff, sides of head and body dark olive buff, below flesh color 

 which was most distinct on chin and legs, belly densely spotted 

 with mustard yellow. A live male differed from the female in 

 having a citrine drab back and the warts cacao brown; the "tail" 

 above was the color of the body with a dark stripe down either 

 side, beneath darker. The ground color is most commonly old 

 rose or brick red, but it may vary from cream white, through 

 various shades of pink, gray, and brown to almost black. In the 

 lightest and darkest specimens the pattern is fairly well obscured. 

 The glandular ridge or row of glandules on the side is usually dark 

 tipped with golden yellow; the dark spot on the head is almost 

 triangular; the dark line on the wrist is seldom interrupted; the 



3 Ridgway's Color Code. 



