Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
EL Karlstam
1955
Bufo corus
June 7 Kaiser Park Meadows, 7000 ft., Fresno Co., Cal.
10:10 A.M. Male bird calling from NW loose of the slope up to Kaiser Berke. Clear, warm, still day.
Clear of ore or in amphidus female 24.2° C. at
10:15 A.M. F ovipositing, many eggs laid (1/2 complement)
sedge water collected over almost entire meadow, flowing
in sheets 20 yards away. Still water line 2 1/2" deep
dark brown silty bottom. Eggs covered with silt. A
third adult → found 6" from mating pair. Water
temp. 23.8° C. 1" below surface. Eggs spread over
area 25 x 10" predominantly in strings. Difficult to
trace out long strings but one 2' of unbroken string
followed out. Sample taken. F S-U length 68 mm.
→/2 or in dark brown color plate. They
with silty background very clear and their calling
came abruptly as we approached 20-30 yards from them.
Triangulation with Drew bird only partly effective due
to the ventriloquist nature of calls. Air temp. 19.5° C. at
10:50 A.M. One high cumulus cloud.
#22 Kodachrome taken from N where fork taken F9 at 1/5th
11:15 A.M. Both of eggs while appear to be a full
dutch found by bird. 5 x 20" string out but
concentrated "aggregation" end. Eggs in water 2" deep at
edge of brook 5-6' wide slowly flowing seepage stream
while for max. depth of 4-5". Temp. 25.8° C. of water
air now 22° C. Birds absent. All eggs collected for counting.
No adults around them. Stage of dev: unclear.