Field notes, v580
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Hyla regella Aug 16, 1960 Squaw Meadows, Squaw Valley, Placer Co., 6200ft, Calif (cont.) - bronzy border around pup.?. When captured this specimen (#26) was darker green with a pattern of brown spots above. Aug. 17, 1960 Mombo Meadows, 1.6 mi SW Squaw Valley, 7440 ft., Placer Co., Calif. - Tony pulled over a rotten log about 4 feet long and half a foot in diameter to expose a Hyla. I found a second specimen near by. The logs are in the center of "Mombo Meadows", 7440 ft, near the trail to the Five Lakes from the Squaw Peak Ski lift. The vegetation around the logs consists primarily of a dense, thick, green grass. Across the trail the grass is drier and more clumpy. Daisies are the only other plant much in evidence (a purplish-white species about 1 1/2 inches in diameter that grows in all moist places around here). There was a wet seepage passing about two feet from the logs, and the soil around them was quite damp. The frogs were between the damp under side of the log and about a half inch of wet wood that remained on the ground. The one I got was greenish-tan dorsally, dirty white laterally, white below, with a pattern on the dorsum. We have a photo- of the meadows.