Field notes, v1382
Page 175
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E.L. Karlsham 1954 Bufo lorea (27) May 13 1/3 mi. S. Cent. Center, Yosemite Valley. Night club this locality. 10:25 A.M. (D.S.) Adult o>o on crushed granite rock "road" cutting across meadow (smaller footpath E of wider former wooded paralleling this one). Animal 101 yards (my guess) from main south E-W wood int S of Cent. Center, mottled white-grey granite rock surface. Clearal 12.0°C, air 1" above roadbed 11.7°C, 14.2°C just under granitic sand some spot./Time 10:50 P.M. (D.S.) Water temp. in pool 5'x 4' x 5" deep 15 yards E of study pond 14.0°C. Air 6" above it 13.2°C, second adult toad o>o found 61 yards from main cent. Center road described above. This animal was on sandy-dirt hillside 1' high located 4' west of the crushed rock footpath. Clearal 12.1°C. Air 10.8°C. Dirt (just under) 13.8°C, where toad sitting, relatively moist soil which remained in semi-flattened stance in dirt depression. Both adults above worked & released. Neither had a prominent, complete vertebral stripe but it was present. Color cream. May 14 same locality. Indications are that this meadow has not been dried. The water level at the study pond is up (stake 4 1/4" above surface). There is 2" of water now around the base of the tube. The tube is not in danger of flooding. Phenologically the meadow picture is this. The green meadow grasses now reach up 10-24" with the average height probably 16".