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Type Locaniry.—Humptulips, Chehalis County, Washington. 
RanGEe.—One capture: Northwest slope Craggy Peak, elevation 
5000 feet, Siskiyou Mountains, Siskiyou County (no. 45362, U.S. Nat. 
Mus.). 
Suborder LINGUATA 
Family PELOBATIDAE 
Scaphiopus hammondii hammondii Baird 
Western Spadefoot 
OrIGINAL DEscriIpTION.—Scaphiopus hammondii Baird, Pac. R. R. 
Rep., 10, 1859, Abbot’s report, pt. 4, no. 4, p. 12, pl. 28 (figs. 2a, 2b, 
2c, 2d). 
Type Locauiry.—Fort Reading [near Redding, in Shasta County], 
California. 
Synonyms.—Spea hammondu; Spea stagnalis. 
Common Names.—Hammond’s Spea; New Mexican Spea; Ham- 
mond’s Spadefoot. 
RaNncE.—Semi-arid portions of the state both east and west of the 
Sierra Nevada, from San Diego (Cooper, in Cronise, Nat. Wealth 
Calif., 1868, p. 486) to Fort Reading, as above. Present records 
include: Los Angeles (Univ. Calif. Dept. Zool.) and Sierra Madre 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.), Los Angeles County ; Santa Barbara (Yarrow and 
Henshaw, Ann. Rep. U. 8. Engineers, 1878, p. 1631) ; Olancha, Inyo 
County (Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, 7, 1893, p. 222); Benton and 
Mono Lake, Mono County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Lane’s Bridge, Fresno 
County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; and Simmler, San Luis Obispo County 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.). Occurs chiefly in the Lower Sonoran life-zone, 
but extends also into Upper Sonoran. Inhabits open country where 
soil is of a nature to permit burrowing to safe depths during dry 
periods. 
Family BUFONIDAE 
Bufo cognatus cognatus Say 
Great Plains Toad 
OrIGINAL Description.—Bufo cognatus Say, in Long’s Expedition 
to Rocky Mountains, 2, 1823, p. 190, footnote. 
Type Locatiry.—Arkansas River [in Colorado, probably between 
present site of La Junta and the Colorado-Kansas boundary]. 
