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close together, and nearly or quite parallel. Voice peculiar. Manitoba 



!ope, E. D. Check List of North American Batrachia and Eeptilia with a 

 Systematic List of the Higher Groups and an Essay on Geographical 

 Distribution based on the Specimens contained in the U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. 1875. P. 29, B. Icntiginosus, subspecies fowleri is given 



Hay, O. P. The Batrachians and Eeptiles of Indiana, 17th Ann. Kept, of 

 Dept. of Geol. and Nat. Eesources of Indiana, 1891. B. foxvleri con- 

 sidered a variety of B. lentiginosus. Range given as Danvers, Mass., 

 and the fact that Cope reported a specimen from New Harmony, 

 Indiana (p. 459). 



Sherwood, W. L. The Progs and Toads Pound in the Vicinity of New 

 York City. Abst. No. 10 of the Proc. of the Linn. Soc. of N. Y. for 

 year ending 1898. Mentions B. fowleri as a subspecies of the common 

 toad, stating that it was confined to northeastern Massachusetts. 



Jordan, David Starr. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern 

 United States. 1899. On page 182, B. fowleri is mentioned as a 



Ditmars, Raymond L. The Batrachians of the Vicinity of New York City. 

 The American Museum Journal, Vol. 5, 1905. Speaking of the com- 



Fowler, H. W. A Supplementary Account of New Jersey Amphibians and 

 Reptiles. Rept. of New Jersey State Museum, Part III, 1911. Bufo 

 fowleri is mentioned. 



Hancock, J. L. The Toad's Social Life in Nature. Sketches in Temperate 

 America, 1911. Fowler's toad is briefly mentioned and illustrations 



Surface, H. A. First Report on the Economic Features of the Amphibians 

 of Pennsylvania. Zoological Bulletin of the Div. of Zoology, Penn- 

 sylvania Dept. of Agriculture, Vol. Ill, Nos. 3 and 4, May-July, 1913. 

 On page 114, B. fowleri is discussed. Statement made that it has been 

 recorded from New England and New York. 



H. A. Allard 



Washington, D. C, 

 May, 1916 



