We are indebted to Mr. O. Sanders, Dallas, Texas, for his helpful discussion (in correspondence) of the probable nature of the relationship between Bufo terrestris, americanus and copei, and with the approval of Dr. K. P. Schmidt, have departed from the classification of these toads used in his 1953 check list of North American amphibians and reptiles. Specimens or records and various notes were contributed by Dr. A. E.