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Travels in Carolina and Florida; he calls it the Savannah cricket, and gives a 

 tolerable account of its manners. This animal forms a good connecting link 

 between the genus rana and hyla, and seems to partake of the habits of both, for 

 though it likes water at all times, yet it may be found on aquatic plants waiting 

 for its prey; and it has the power of adhering to smooth surfaces like the Hyla, 

 but less perfectly. 



For the present I am disposed to arrange this animal with the Hylodes of 

 Fitzinger, for 1. The extremities are slender, with the fingers and toes only 

 slightly swelled at the tips; and 2. It cannot belong to the genus Rana, as it wants 

 a bony sternum, &c.* 



This animal, with the succeeding, and another not yet described, make a very 

 good connecting link between the genera Rana and Hyla, as will be seen in the 

 anatomical part of this work. 



* See Anatomical part of this work. 



