12 ZOOLOGY. 



SPKC. CHAR. Uniform bluish lead color above ; uniform yellowish white beneath. Three pairs of frontal plates. Middle 

 pair united with the loral, and thus extending to the labials. Labials not entering into the orbit. Dorsal scales in 45 rows. 



Upper Willamette valley, Oregon. Dr. Newberry. 



BUFO COLUMBIENSIS, B. & G. 



Bufo columbiensis, B. & G. Pr. A. N. Sc. VI, 1853, 378. GIRARD, Herp. U. S. Ex. Ex. 1838, 77; pi. v, figs. 49. 



SPEC. CHAR. Upper surface of head plane, skin adhering to the skull and granulated. Parotids and tympanum small. A 

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

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



25*78. Upper Pit river. 2580. Upper Klamath. Dr. Newberry. 



SCAPHIOPUS IIAMMONDII, B a i r d . 

 PLATE XXVIII, FIG. 2. 



SPEC. CH*R. Tongue very large, orbicular, without notch behind. Spade highly developed. Color above dark olive brown, 

 with very indistinct blotches of darker. Summits of dorsal pustulation 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. holbrookii, figured for comparison on figure 1 of the same plate. The tongue 

 appears to be much broader. 



3695. Fort Heading, California. Dr. J. F. Hammond, U. S. A. 



HYLA EEGILLA, B. & G. 

 PLATE XXVIII, FIGS. 3. 



Ilylaregilla, B. & G. Pr. A. N. Sc VI, 1852, 174. IB. 1853, 301. GIRARD, Herp. U. S. Ex. Ex. 1858, 60 ; pi. iii, 



figa. 1318. 

 Hyla scapularis, HALLOWELL, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, 1852, 183. 



SPEC. CHAR. Olive or ashy green, coarsely marked on each side with blotches in two longitudinal series, bordered on either 

 side with scattered smaller and more rounded ones. A triangular blotch between the eye. A dark narrow line from snout to 

 eye ; a broad postocular Titta 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. 



RANA BOYLII, B a i r d . 



Rana boylii, BAIRD, Pr. A. N. Sc. VII, April, 1854, 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 indistinct blotches on the back, and fasciae on the legs. Beneath yellowish, 

 mottled anteriorly. Two inches long. 



Sacramento river. Dr. Newberry. 



AMBLYSTOMA CALIFOBN1ENSE, Gray. 

 PLATE XXX, FIGS. 1, 2, and 3. 



AmUystoma calif orniense, GRAY, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. Jan. 1853, 11 ; pi. vii. 

 SPEC. CHAR. Black. Sides of lips, lower part of neck, body and tail, and limbs, with large white spots. Palatine teeth in an 



