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Rana muscosa
Aug 17, 1960 - #36 - Five Lakes, 1.7 mi S., 1.7 mi W. Sqcow Vally, 2500 ft, Placer Co., Calif. - Snout-vent length. 1 3/4 inches. Dorsum yellowish olive(1) with a few small lighter(2) spots, lateral color same as dorsal; indistinct reddish dorsolateral folds from eye to rump, and four series of small blockish brown(3) round spots about 2 mm in diameter on the back from the arm insertion to the rump. Sides more or less mottled with darker(4) and lighter(5); head with smaller (1mm. in diameter) dark spots, lips lighter(6), mottled with brown.(7) Fore limbs lighter(8), with indistinct darker(9) cross bars; hind limbs ground color with darker(10) narrow cross bars. Chin and belly creamy(11) limbs golden yellow(12) beneath, anal region reddish(13). See Aug 16, 1960 for color chips. Specimen from first area described.
#39. Snout-vent length about 2 1/2 inches. Ground color yellowish-olive(1), with brown(2) spots, which are extensive, confluent, tending to obscure the ground color, laterally same color as back. An indistinct reddish-olive dorsolateral fold from eye to sacral hump. Dorsal and lateral surfaces with numerous small light(3) flecks about 1/6 of an inch across; these also present on the head, which except for the snout is brown(4), canthal area brown(5), snout olive(6), lips lighter(7), mottled with brown(8). Fore limbs color of lips with five brown(9) bars narrower than the interspaces. Hind limbs ground-color, with light(10), black-tipped pustules and 3 bars formed by narrow brown(11) spots(12), on femur, tibia, and tarsus; these spots are confluent when leg is folded;