1925] 
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Entire upper surface pale flesh color, suffused with buff on hands and feet; 
parotoids darker, nearly ‘ ‘ brick-red ’ ’ except in the middle ; all the tubercles of 
the same red color; each of the larger ones surrounded at the base by a circle of 
minute black specks; a narrow white stripe down the middle of the back; a few 
dusky annular marks on upper flanks and hind legs; under surface bluish- white ; 
lower abdomen and inner side of hind limbs pale brownish-yellow; palms of the 
same color, but the inner surface of the fore limbs pinkish; iris brassy, densely 
clouded with dark mottlings, except a narrow inner ring which is bright metallic. 
Measurements of Adult Specimens of Bufo woodhousii from Southwestern 
United States 
M.V.Z. 
No. 
Sex 
Locality 
Date 
I Head-and-body 
| length 
| Length of head J | 
| Width of head || 
| Orbit 
1 Interorbital 
1 space 
| Forearm 
| Hand 
3 
a 
<x> 
Ph 
| Tibia 
| Tarsus 
J Whole foot 
7693 
$ 
Chandler, Maricopa Co., 
Ariz 
Sept. 8, 1919 
72.5 
20.6 
27.8 
9.5 
5.0 
17.8 
18.0 
27.0 
27.0 
16.7 
45 
1844 
$ 
Potholes, Colorado River, 
Calif 
Apr. 27, 1910 
79.6 
22.2 
31.2 
10.5 
3.8 
19.3 
22.6 
35.8 
32.8 
20.7 
53 
1842 
$ 
Potholes, Colorado River, 
Calif % 
Apr. 28, 1910 
81.8 
23.7 
34.0 
11.0 
5.0 
22.6 
21.7 
36.9 
35.4 
21.3 
57 
5552 
9 
Albuquerque, N. M 
about Aug. 
5, 1914 
82.2 
23.6 
33.0 
10.0 
6.2 
23.5 
23.0 
38.0 
35.0 
21.5 
60 
7691 
$ 
1 mi. e. Willcox, Cochise 
Co., Ariz 
Aug. 3, 1919 
84.6 
23.5 
32.8 
10.4 
4.2 
21.8 
20.0 
36.0 
33.7 
20.0 
56 
8919 
d 
Bunkerville, Lincoln Co., 
Nev 
Mar. 28, 1923 
56.0 
17.0 
23.3 
7.7 
4.7 
16.0 
15.5 
24.0 
23.0 
14.0 
41 
8909 
cT 
Bunkerville, Lincoln Co., 
Nev 
Mar. 28, 1923 
60.0 
18.0 
25.0 
9.0 
5.0 
17.0 
16.3 
28.5 
24.2 
15.6 
42 
8921 
d 
Bunkerville, Lincoln Co., 
Nev 
Mar. 28, 1923 
62.0 
19.3 
26.0 
10.0 
5.0 
17.7 
18.2 
25.5 
26.0 
16.7 
45 
8531 
d 
Albuquerque, N. M 
June 1, 1902 
68.5 
20.5 
26.8 
9.4 
4.2 
18.5 
18.7 
29.0 
29.0 
17.2 
47 
7692 
d 
Willcox, Cochise Co., 
Ariz 
Aug. 3, 1919 
76.8 
22.5 
29.0 
10.2 
5.0 
21.2 
18 7 
33.6 
31.2 
19.0 
52 
History. — This toad was originally described as Bufo dorsalis by 
Hallowell in 1852 on the basis of a specimen obtained by Dr. S. W. 
Woodhouse on “San Francisco Mountain, New Mexico.” The name 
dorsalis being preoccupied by an earlier name given by Spix, Girard 
in 1854 rechristened the species woodhousii. Stejneger .(1890, pp. 
116-117; compare Cope, 1891, pp. 1204-1205) has shown that these 
two names apply to one and the same specimen. The limits of New 
Mexico, at the time of Woodhouse ’s exploration, extended to the 
Colorado River and it was not until 1863 that the western part of the 
area, including San Francisco Mountain, was separated to form the 
Territory (now State) of Arizona (see Van Denburgh, 1924, pp. 189- 
190). Woodhousii has until recently usually been considered a west- 
ern subspecies of Bufo lentiginosus [= americanus] , but structurally 
