78 BUFOAMERICANUS. 



Leconte first proposed calling this animal Bufo Americanus; and although he has 

 never published a description, still it is due to him to retain the name, which seems 

 to me sufficiently appropriate; for although there are many Toads in the United 

 States, there are none so conmion, so widely extended, and so much like the Bufo 

 communis of the old world. Indeed, we regard it as the representative of that 

 animal in North America, and have taken it as the type of our genus Bufo. 



