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more or less banded with black; under parts whitish or yellowish, or 

 even dusky, but unspotted. 



Range, Colorado south into Chihuahua. 



Colorado specimen. — State Teachers' College Museum: Las Animas County, 

 near Trinidad, 1883, A. E. Beardsley (det. A. E. Beardsley). 



Bufo woodhousei Girard 

 Woodhouse's Toad 



Bufo woodhousei Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 86, 1854. 



Bufo woodhousei — Baerd, Pac. R.R. Surv., Vol. X, v, p. 20, 1859 (upper 

 Arkansas); Cope, V.S.N.M. Bull. 34, p. 284, 1889 (Colorado Springs, Colo.). 



Bufo lentiginosus frontosus — Yarrow, Wheeler Survey, Vol. V, p. 520, 1875 

 (Twin Lakes, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colo.). 



Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei — Yarrow, Wheeler Survey, Vol. V, p. 521, 1875 

 (between Pueblo and Ft. Garland); Cary, N. Am. Fauna, No. 33, p. 27, 1911 

 (Rangeley and Rifle, Colo.). 



Head very short, almost twice as wide as long, its length about 

 5 in the total length; muzzle quite abrupt, somewhat rounded at the 

 tip; parotoids long and oval; size large, males three to four inches in 

 length, females four to six inches. 



General color dull gray or dark brown, yellowish laterally; often 

 quite distinctly marked with blackish spots; a light mid-dorsal stripe; 

 ventral parts yellowish or whitish with small dark spots near the fore 

 limbs; throat black in the male. 



Range, Rocky Mountain region. This species is regarded by 

 many authors as but a well-defined variety of Bufo lentiginosus Shaw. 



Bufo woodhousei. — Diagram of Bony Crests 



Colorado specimens. — University Museum: North of Boulder, June 1, 1910 

 (80 mm.), J. Henderson, No. 119; Grand Junction, August 8, 1912 (7 specimens, 

 32-90 mm.), J. Henderson and M. M. Ellis, No. 183; Montrose, August 9, 1912 

 (18 mm.), J. Henderson, No. 184; Rio Florida, near Durango, August 11, 1912 



