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- Scaphiopus [underlined] Spadefoot toad May 29/41 [1941] Found small pond between road + Osoyoos Lake, just east of bridge crossing Lake neck, where large numbers of large tadpoles were feeding on surface. Many had hind legs well-developed + seemed shortly to break through front-legs. Most were feeding from surface in muddy shallows at each end of pond. Took colour pictures of pond - Preserved several dozen tad-poles. May 30th [1941] Heard Scaphiopus calling near small lake north of Oliver but did not locate origin. June 4th [1941] Heard Scaphiopus calling at Mission Flats, Dom. Ent Lab. [Dominion Entomological Laboratory] Kamloops, B.C. " [June] 5th [1941] Collected one toad at gate in front of Lab building at night. " [June] 6th [1941] Cowan [Ian McTaggart Cowan] collected 14 calling Scaphiopus in small mud puddle in pig sty in farm yard east of Lab building, Mission Flats. Several pairs were in inguinal [underlined] amplexus + continued even though the next day. One male was clasping a female Hyla [underlined] which was found to be dead next morning. Eggs were visible through skin suggesting peritoneal rupture.
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