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ponds in northeastern Massachusetts, near the town of Dan 



Cope's work was published in 1889, in the same year that 

 Allen 2 reports having heard Fowler's toad in New Hampshire. 

 Speaking of Bufo americanus Le Conte, Allen said : 



ness, and almost reaches a wail. 



Although Allen thought that the common toad was respon- 

 sible for the two songs, it is plain that he had heard the unmis- 

 takable song of Fowler's toad. Allen's observation extended the 

 range of this toad well up into New Hampshire. 



Although as late as 1889 Fowler's toad appeared to have a 

 very local distribution in New England, more recent work has 

 shown that this toad has an extended range southward. 



In 1907 the writer 3 published a paper showing that Fowler's 

 toad is very common around Oxford and Worcester, in Worcester 

 County, Massachusetts. In a second paper, published in 1908, 4 

 it was shown that the range of this toad extended through Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, into northern 

 Georgia, where it appeared to be the only common form in the 

 vicinity of Hoschton and Thompson's Mills, near Gainesville. 



In 1910 Miller and Chapin 5 gave an excellent discussion of the 

 range of Bufo americanus and Bufo fowleri in New Jersey and 

 adjacent regions of New York. 



From the observations of Miller and Chapin it appears that 

 Fowler's toad occupies practically the entire state of New Jersey, 

 except, perhaps, the extreme northwestern part. Throughout 



2 Allen, Glover M., "Notes on the Eeptiles and Amphibians of Intervale, 

 New Hampshire," Proc. of the Boston Society of Nat. History, Vol. 29, 

 No. 3, 1889, p. 71. 



3Allard, H. A., "Fowler's Toad, Bufo fowleri Putnam," Science, N. S., 

 Vol. 26, No. 664, Sept. 20, 1907, pp. 383-384. 



