Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-621) and index.

The preeminent naturalists Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen Wright spent years assembling the wealth of material on frogs and toads appearing in this widely used handbook, the third edition of which was originally published in 1949. With abundant black-and-white photographs, colorful descriptions, journal notes from the field, and excerpts from the literature, their personalized natural history emphasizes amphibians observed in the wild. In a foreword to the 1995 paperback edition, Roy McDiarmid, a foremost specialist on frogs and toads, brings the book into historical perspective and supplies information to bring it up to date. Accounts of more than 100 species and subspecies cover such topics as common and scientific names, range, habitat, size, and general appearance, as well as color, structure, voice, and breeding. Separate keys are given for secondary sexual characteristics, eggs, tadpoles, families, and species. Generous quotations from the Wrights' field journals give the reader a sense of the problems and satisfactions of their work. Annotation Published: July 2015.

This book is a softbound reprint of one in a classic series of American natural history handbooks originally published in the 1930's through the 1950's. Each volume is identical to the original in content, with the exception of a new forward, part of which highlights changes in systematics during the past half century. This volume presents an in-depth discussion of the frogs and toads of Canada and the United States. An introductory section provides general information on distribution, anatomy, habitats, habits, voice, reproduction, development, and other topics. The bulk of the text is taken by identification keys and the systematically arranged species accounts. All species are treated as evenly as the available information allows. The text is illustrated, heavily referenced, and indexed. Synopsis copyright (c) 1996 by Biological Abstracts, Inc. (BIOSIS).

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