Field notes, v580
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Hyla regella Aug. 14, 1960 - 0.7 mi SW Squaw Valley Placer Co., Calif - 6900 ft - #17-22 Several advanced tuds and small recently transformed formed Hyla were taken in a pool with a Rana and other tads (which description see). The Hyla seemed more numerous, but not greatly so. They were all farther developed than the other type of tad in the pond, and less alert than them. August 17, 1960 - Revisited the pool. Almost all the Hyla had transformed, transformed, breastly green frogs with brown sides, Aug. 16, 1960 Squaw Meadows, Squaw Valley, 6200 ft., Placer Co., Calif - #26- A Hyla was taken in a fangle of lumber in Squaw Creek resting against an outcropping of grass-covered dirt which had apparently fallen off from the bank. The stream was very calm at the site, about 5 or 6 yards wide and possibly 2 feet deep at the most, although averaging 6 or 8 inches. Both banks of the creek are grassy right up to the edge, which is an abrupt drop of two to three feet to water line. At the northwest side of the area, there is a wide, gravelly area. The pool was cool, and had a rocky bottom largely covered with silt, but free of vegetation. There were a few small fish around the sticks. #26. Snout-vent length about 1 1/2 inches. Dorsum light tannish green. A cinnamon stripe from the nostril to the arm in section, and a few similar colored spots following this. Tops of limbs colored like dorsum, but lighter, backs of limbs pinkish, a few cinnamon spots on the whitish border between this & the dorsal color. Underside dirty white, unpattered. Eye dark brown, a