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ZOOLOGY. 
Spko. Char. —Uniform bluish lead color above; uniform yellowish white beneath. Three pairs of frontal plates. Middle 
pair united with the loral, and thus extending to the labials. Labials not entering into the orbit. Dorsal scales in 45 rows. 
Upper Willamette valley, Oregon. Dr. Newberry. 
BUFO COLUMBIENSIS, B. & G. 
Bufo columbiensis, B. & G. Pr. A. N. Sc. VI, 1853, 378.— Girard, Herp. U. S. Ex. Ex. 1858, 77; pi. v, figs. 4—9. 
Spec. Char. —Upper surface of head plane, skin adhering to the skull and granulated. Parotids and tympanum small. A 
membranous tarsal fold. Toes palmated. Color light greenish with black blotches and reddish spots. A dorsal white vitta. 
An oblique dark patch beneath the eye. Beneath soiled yellow, spotted.—(Girard.) 
2578. Upper Pit river.—2580. Upper Klamath. Dr. Newberry. 
SCAPHIOPUS HAMMONDII, Baird. 
Plate XXVIII, Fig. 2. 
Spec. Char. —Tongue very large, orbicular, without notch behind. Spade highly developed. Color above dark olive brown, 
with very indistinct blotches of darker. Summits of dorsal pustulation whitish. Beneath whitish, the chin black. Head and 
body two inches long. Hind leg 2£. 
This species is easily distinguished by its nearly uniform and very dark color, without the 
light lines of S. holbrookii, figured for comparison on figure 1 of the same plate. The tongue 
appears to be much broader. 
3695. Fort Pleading, California. Dr. J. F. Hammond, U. S. A. 
HYLA EEGILLA, B. & G. 
Plate XXVIII, Figs. 3. 
Ilyla regilla, B. & G. Pr. A. N. Sc VI, 1852, 174.— Ib. 1853, 301.— Girard, Herp. U. S. Ex. Ex. 1858, 60; pi. iii, 
figs. 13—18. 
Hyla scapularis, Hallowell, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, 1852,183. 
Spec. Char. —Olive or ashy green, coarsely marked on each side with blotches in two longitudinal series, bordered on either 
side with scattered smaller and more rounded ones. A triangular blotch between the eye. A dark narrow line from snout to 
eye; a broad postocular vitta to the arm, beneath which is a bar of grayish white about half the width. Dorsal blotches 
sometimes wanting. 
3229. Yreka, California, and 3231, Klamath lake. Dr. Newberry. 
RANA BOYLII, Baird. 
Rana boylii, Baird, Pr. A. N. Sc. VII, April, 1854, 62. 
Spec. Char. —A broad depressed ridge of skin on each side of back. Skin finely tubercular above. Head broader than long. 
Tympanum scarcely evident, pustulated. Tibia more than half the length of body; hind foot less than half this length; webbed 
entirely to the horny tips; outer toe decidedly longer than the third. An elongated tubercle at base of inner toe, with another 
opposite to it. Above dull reddish olivaceous, with indistinct blotches on the back, and fasciae on the legs. Beneath yellowish, 
mottled anteriorly. Two inches long. 
Sacramento river. Dr. Newberry. 
AMBLYSTOMA CALIFORNIENSE, Gray. 
Plate XXX, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. 
Ambhjstoma culifomiense, Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. Jan. 1853, 11; pi. vii. 
Spec. Char. —Black. Sides of lips, lower part of neck, body and tail, and limbs, with large white spots. Palatine teeth in an 
