Banks 1959 Rana Boylei May 9 2 mi S Westport, sealevel, Mendocino Co., Calif. - Pt. #1 cuts inland here in a big loop where a stream has cut a good sized gorge. There is a little dirt fenced-off road following the stream course to a small beach. Besides this fairly large stream a small one meets the sea here too. See Map. Where the small stream stops there is about a 1/5x 3 pond of brackish water - I tasted it. Here I gathered some small frogs. At the mouth of the larger stream were many more small and a few large frogs, which I didn't catch. This water was flowing swiftly but I didn't taste it - I assume it was fresh. Upstream here, about 10 ft. elev., I found a bunch of small tadpoles and egg masses - most of the masses were just hatching and breaking up. Got parts of two and one fairly complete earlier one, with larvae. The egg masses were attached to sides of rocks or large sticks in the algae-filled water - water only about 4-6 inches deep. The frogs at the little stream were clustered around about 3 ft. of sedge, & some would partly dig into the sand.