J. Rodgers Cedar Canyon, 5000 ft., Providence Mts., San Bernardinos Co., Calif. May 25, 1938 to hollow out some places in the tributal waters, there so as to form some pools which might attract birds. I put two live Bufo punctatus in a bag with 3 lizards, a collared lizard and two Cnemidophorus. I noticed much scrambling around in the bag but went on up the canyon. I dug the holes and about 1½ hours after leaving camp, started to photograph the animals. I opened the bag and found one Cnemidophorus and one toad dead and the other not very lively looking. They were all covered with small black objects about the size of BB’s (a little smaller). These objects stuck to the animals and when I tried to wipe them off, they smeared like tar. On the foot of one of the toads there was a small cluster of these. The sack and the toads had a musty smell quite like the smell of Triturus torosus give off when handled. The toads seemed in good health. They are now preserved with many of the black objects stuck on them. They are 1055 and 1056. Were these black objects part of the musty smelling defense mechanism of the toads, that probably caused the death of the lizards, or are they eggs laid by the toads in the excitement? We photographed the toads on the granite rocks where we had collected some the night before (probably on their way to water to lay egg), and the Cnemidophorus on the