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  • Scaphiopus [underlined] Osoyoos, B.C. May 20, 1941. Took nine of these toads singing in a marshy backwater on the east side of the lake. Another two under boards adjacent to a small pond by Tracey's Dairy Farm on the west side. Tracks in the sand show the toads to be active all over the desert at night. I myself took 5 at night out on the desert a quarter of a mile from water. May 29, 1941. Many large tadpoles, one transforming. Galligher [word cut off when scanned; Gallagher] Lake May 24, 1941. Spadefoots calling from a pond nearby. Penticton, B.C. May 31, 1941. Heard spadefoots calling from an irrigation flood pool near [S.J.] Darcus place, also from hear the railway close to our auto camp. Kamloops, B.C. June 5 and 6 [1941] Raining intermittently for the last several weeks. Heard Spadefoots calling on 5th and on same evening caught one on the road in front of the Entom. Lab. [Entolomological Laboratory] at Mission Flats 3 miles west of town. Kamloops, June 8, 1941. Located a breeding congregation in in [word crossed out] rainponds in a pig pen. Water 4" [inches] to 10"[inches] deep. Numbers of Spadefoot & northern toads & Hyla calling. 4 pairs of Scaphiopus taken in amplexus. Clasping is inguinal. One male toad was clasping a [female symbol] Hyla when captured at 11 p.m. By noon next day Hyla was almost dead, peritonenum [peritoneum] appeared to have been ruptured in inguinum and blood had
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