EDWARD S. MORSE, PRESIDENT 

 GLOVER M. ALLEN, SECRETARY 

 WILLI-AM A. JEFFRIES, TREASURE 



EDW. WIGGLESWORTH, CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE C 



CHARLES W. JOHNSON, Curator 



JOSEPH A. CUSHMAN, ASSOCIATE CURATOR 



Boston Society of matural Utstors 



234 BERKELEY STREET, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 



July l, 1919 



Mr, Waiter Deane, 



Sheiburne, ir ,H . 

 Dear Walter 



It was very thoughtful of you to send us the large ^ 

 toad, which arrived "blinking and happy this morning. I have 

 turned him over to Dr. cjisnnan for the museum,.^ and he tel^s 

 me it will be welcome for the locality. It is the Common 

 American Toad, Buf 0 ame r 1 c anus . distinguished from Fowler's Toad 

 by the speckled bei±y and other characters (which I am not very 

 sure of\ including the lack of a black chin. This species 

 goes very far north: Townsend and I got one in slither n Labrador 

 and it is said to reach Hudson Bay. I have met with it in the 

 woods on the White Mountains very far up on Mt .Washington, near 

 timber line, and these old toads sometimes grow to a large size. 

 Fowler's Toad is more southern and I am not sure that it reaches 

 New Hampshire, though I have heard Its characteristic song sligh- 

 tly norm of Boston. It breeds in June here, while the Common 

 Toad lays its eggs in April. The tadpoles change into little 

 toadlets in early summer and sometimes you ray find them in num- 

 bers hopping about the edges of ponds from which they must re- 

 c ntly have come. 



I hppe you are having a very pleasant summer. Sarah 

 and I went for a day's outing to Concord .^ist week a:id called at 

 Mr. Brewster's bumie was out. I stopped a second tofsee his hat 

 colony. I wonder how the bats at Sheiburne are. Tiease keep 

 watch of themi — c^jul^ <e> ^ Olp."- 



