. The Batrachia of North America. Amphibians. 280 BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Bufo lentiginosus fowleri Putnam. RESERVE SERIES. Catalogue nurabcr. No. of spec. Locality. When collected. From whom received. Nature ol specimen. 10fi85 1 1 1 Danvers, Mass Prof. F. W. Putnam do 10886 do Do. 10887 do do Fig. 68. linfo lentiginosus fowleri, Putn. 10888. Danvers, Mass.; \. Mr. S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, Mass.,after whom this iDterestiiig toad was named, makes the following statem-ent in regard to the habits of B. lentiginosus fowleri^ in a letter to Prof. F. W. Putnam, who has kin
. The Batrachia of North America. Amphibians. 280 BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Bufo lentiginosus fowleri Putnam. RESERVE SERIES. Catalogue nurabcr. No. of spec. Locality. When collected. From whom received. Nature ol specimen. 10fi85 1 1 1 Danvers, Mass Prof. F. W. Putnam do 10886 do Do. 10887 do do Fig. 68. linfo lentiginosus fowleri, Putn. 10888. Danvers, Mass.; \. Mr. S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, Mass.,after whom this iDterestiiig toad was named, makes the following statem-ent in regard to the habits of B. lentiginosus fowleri^ in a letter to Prof. F. W. Putnam, who has kindly allowed me to make the following extract from it: "In regard to its habits I would say I have never been able as yet to discover it except in warm summer evenings when the thermometer is not below 00°. In cool evenings they are not to be seen at all and are perfectly silent. When first observed in the early part of the evening they may be seen making their way through the grass and over the grounds adjacent to the pond, and when it is reached, which is usually about dark, they commence their singular note, which the late Dr. Nichols thought was amatory, and which he described as a shrill mon- otone, continued a second or more in a high falsetto voice, thrice as long and more trilling than the voice of Pickering's Hyla, I agree with Dr. Nichols in regard to the croak of this toad, excepting the trill, there being no trill to this reptile's note, such as we notice in the common toad, frequently long continued, and which seems to mark this species. I would here say I have heard the note of one toad in the grass some distance from the pond. To my ear this croak is a sharp, disagreeable, unearthly screetch, difficult to describe, as it is unlike any sound I have ever heard uttered. I have heard people who live near this pond (Judge Putnam's) say that they thoughtit resembled in a warm summer's night (when they are most active and numerous) the whoop of a party of Indians,
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