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BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Bufo lenttfjinosus fowleri Putuam. 

 RESERVE SERIES. 



Catalogue 

 number. 



No. of 

 spec. 



Locality. 



When 

 collected. 



From whom received. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



10885 



1 

 1 

 1 



Dan vers. Mass 





Prof. E. W. Putnam 



do . .. 





. 10886 



do.. 





Do. 



10887 



do 





do 



Do. 













Fig. 68. livfo lentiginosus fowleri, Putn. 10888. Danvers, Mass.; {. 



Mr. S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, Mass., after whom this interesting toad 

 was named, makes the following statement in regard to the habits of 

 B. Untiginosus foivleri, in a letter to Prof. F. W. Putnam, wlio has kindly 

 allowed me to make the following extract from it: 



"In regard to its habits I would say I have never been able as yet to 

 discover it except in warm summer evenings when the thermometer is 

 not below 60*^. In cool evenings they are not to be seen at all and are 

 Xierfectly silent. When first observed in the early part of the evening 

 they may be seen making their way through the grass and over the 

 grounds adjacent to the pond, and when it is reached, which is usually 

 about dark, they commence their singular note, which the late Dr. 

 Nichols thought was amatory, and which he described as a shrill mon- 

 otone, continued a second or more in a high falsetto voice, thrice as 

 long and more trilling than the voice of Pickering's Hyla, I agree 

 with Dr. Nichols in regard to the croak of this toad, excepting the trill, 

 there being no trill to this reptile's note, such as we notice in the common 

 toad, frequently long continued, and which seems to mark this species. 

 I would here say I have heard the note of one toad in the grass some 

 distance from the pond. To my ear this croak is a sharp, disagreeable, 

 unearthly screetch, difficult to describe, as it is unlike any sound I have 

 ever heard uttered. I have heard people who live near this pond (Judge 

 Putnam's) say that they thoughtit resembled in a warm summer's night 

 (when they are most active and numerous) the whoop of a party of 

 Indians, and that they have heard their screeching during the whole 

 night. That their note is amatory I have at present some doubt, as it 

 is continued through the warm season of the year. I first noticed these 

 toads the present season at Judge Putnam^s pond, in the evening of 

 20th of May, when I took several of them. I have not as yet been able 



