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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".