1925] Storer: A Synopsis of the Amphibia of California 
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The following specimens are in the Museum’s collection from east- 
ern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Nevada, 
M. V. Z. 
No. 
Locality 
Date 
Sex 
Head-and- 
body 
length in 
millimeters 
1568 
Quinn River Crossing, Humboldt Co., 
Nev 
May 30, 1909 
(? 
43.8 
1567 
Quinn River Crossing, Humboldt Co., 
Nev 
June 4, 1909 
$ 
47.5 
7462 
Prineville, Crook Co., Ore 
July 24, 1920 
cf 
49.5 
5591 
Wallula, Walla Walla Co., Wash 
June 16, 1914 
cf 
50.8 
8902 
Bunkerville, Lincoln Co., Nev 
Mar. 28, 1923 
c? 
51.2 
5590 
Wallula, Walla Walla Co., Wash 
June 12, 1914 
54.1 
1556 
Big Creek Ranch, base of Pine Forest 
Mts., Humboldt Co., Nev 
June 21, 1909 
54.5 
7551 
Thousand Creek Hot Springs, nw. Hum- 
boldt Co., Nev 
June 15, 1920 
55.0 
1252 
Virgin Valley, Humboldt Co., Nev 
May 21, 1909 
56.0 
History. — Scaphiopus hammondii was originally described by 
Baird in 1859 from a specimen obtained by Dr. J. F. Hammond at 
Fort Reading [== near Redding] , California, during the course of the 
Pacific Railroad Surveys. Subsequently it was reported from San 
Diego (Cooper, 1868; Cope, 1883) and Santa Barbara (Yarrow and 
Henshaw, 1878). Until recently these stations constituted the only 
two California localities of record for the species. Cope in 1866 
sought to establish a separate genus, Spea, to include hammondii and 
its varieties, but the characters which he used to distinguish Spea from 
Scaphiopus are too slight to warrant the separation. Cope also 
described several varietal forms of hammondii on the basis of material 
from the Great Basin and elsewhere (see Cope, 1863; Cope in Yarrow, 
1875; Cope, 1883) but these have not found general acceptance. It is 
outside the province of the present paper to review these forms; the 
writer believes that the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain forms may 
prove to merit recognition, but a careful monographic study of the 
species is needed to settle the matter. 
Range. Scaphiopus hammondii, considering the species in its 
widest sense, ranges from the western margin of the Great Plains to 
the Pacific Coast and from the Mexican line across the Canadian 
boundary. On the east it has been recorded at El Paso, Texas 
(Strecker, 1915, p. 54) ; Clarendon, Donley County, Texas (Cope, 
1892, p. 332) ; and in Armstrong County, Texas (Strecker, loc. cit.) ; 
