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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ifSJ.I-vR. Ex. & Surveys; 47^rarallel Reptfles: Plate (V,
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ZOOLOGY. 295 ilouht, like the ugly but useful toads, more useful than ornamental, as their food consistschiefly of insects. As might be supposed from the locality, the specimens found in Washington Territory aresmaller than those from Oregon and Utah. I never saw nor heard of its occurrence west of the Cascade mountains.—C. This animal was found by me at Fort Benton, on the Upper Missouri, and again on the plainswest of the Rocky mountains, as far as the Cascade range. One was caught in September, near the Snake river, Oregon Territory-. At Christmas,although having been shut up since its capture in an empty match box, it was still quite lively.When irritated it would spring in a most threatening manner at anjthing pointed at it, at thesame time opening its mouth widely, and audibly kissing, after whicli it would inflate its bod)and show other evident marks of anger. It died about Februarv 1, probably from starvation,as the heat of the house prevented torpor, and there were no insec

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