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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BATRACHIANS OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK 187 Range: Four varieties of this species inhabit North America. One of these appears to occur only in northeastern Massachu- setts; another is confined to the Rocky Mountain region; the typical form is found in the southeastern United States, while the variety that occurs locally is distributed over an extensive area, namely: from British America to the Southern States and westward to Arizona. Local Distribution: Common and abundant. There is but one species of the local batrachians which
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FIQ. 16. THE COMMON TOAD From specimen in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. might be confused by the observer with the Common Toad, and that is the Spadefoot Toad. The Spadefoot Toad receives its name from a pronounced spade-like process on the inner edge of the hind foot, a feature which is also slightly developed on the common species. The color of the Spadefoot is, however, quite different from the ordinary toad. Instead of the single light band along the back of the Common Toad, the Spadefoot has two pale bands, which run together and fork at the end of the body. Many of the reptiles and batrachians have habits which render them of considerable economic value to the agriculturist,

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