E. L. Kardellum 1954 Bufo boreas (5) April 9 at 12:20 p.m. water temp. below surface was 26° C. Air temp. 19°. 6-7 inches below soil surface in soft moist loam 8° C. I took 2 pictures of Pond A facing NW (#324 on blue-x roll). April 13 Color notes taken morning April 13, 1954 at MVZ. Adult toads have been kept individually in jars with small amount of water at the bottom - these kept dark cold room 42-45° F. since last Friday night. I can see no appreciable change or loss of color or pattern. ELK 158 adult σσ, body length 82 mm. Skin ground color is Piping Rock Gray Stone (Pl. 13, A-2 Maery + Paul). The most striking feature is the almost complete absence of a vertebral stripe. Between the forelegs a lighter gray line (< 1 mm. width) is present not more than 18 mm. long. There is no stripe in the middle of the X2/3 back but it appears again in the sacral region extending < 16 mm. here and not more than 0.5 mm. wide. The rounded warts on the sides of the body (avg. 2 mm. width) are Vucaton (Pl. 12, L-9 M & P). Dorsally the warts tend to be darker, more of a Russet (Pl. 14, I-12) to Cinnabar Br. (Pl. 14 I-10) linked black blotches around the warts and the center of the warts may