296 



BTJEONIB*. 



forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 the eye. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly porous warts ; 

 paratoids short, subtriangular, depressed. Olive above, marbled 

 with darker ; a light vertebral line; belly spotted with blackish. 

 California. 



a. ?. 

 b-c. Yg. 



California. 

 Eraser River. 



H.M.S. ' Plumper.' 



24. Bufo boreas. 



Buto horeas, Bmrd ^ Gir. Proc. Ac. -Philad. 1852, p. 174; Girard, 



U.S. Expl. Exped., Herp. p. 74, pi. 6. f. 4^-9. 

 Bufo columbiensis, Baird ^ Gir. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 378 ; 



Girard, I. <,-. p. 77, pi. 5. f. 4-9. 



Lower surface of foot. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital 

 space flat, or slightly concave, as broad as the upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum very distinct, half the width of the eye. First finger not 

 extending beyond second ; toes entirely webbed or nearly so, with 

 double subarticular tubercles (generally only under the last phalanges 

 of the longest toe) ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal 

 fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 

 tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the nostril in males, the tym- 

 panum or eye in females. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly 

 porous warts ; parotoids short, subtriangular or suboval, depressed. 

 Olive above, marbled with darker ; generally a light vertebral line ; 

 belly more or less spotted with blackish. Male with a subgular 

 vocal sac. 



California; Montana. 



a. cJ. 



b-d, e. Many spec, 



iLeralspec, 



Fort Halket. 

 Sumass Prairies. 



Vancouver's Island. 

 S. Juan, Orcas Is- 

 lands. 

 California. 



B.E.Ross, Esq. [P.]. 

 Boundary Commission [0.]. 



Lieut.-Col. Hawkins [0.1. 

 Voy. of H.M.S. 'Plumper.' 



Ur. Lyall rC.I. 

 Mr. Gru'ber fC.]. 



