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RANA CLAMITANS.— iJosc. 



Plate XX. 



Characters. Head elongated, snout rather pointed, upper jaw green; body 

 slender, olive colour in front, very dusky behind; throat and abdomen silver-white. 

 Length, 3 inches. 



Synonymes. Rana clamitans, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. ii. p. 157. 

 Rana clamata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rain., p. 54, pi. xvi. fig. 2. 

 Rana clamata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 104. 

 Rana clamitans, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xiii. p. 476. 

 Rana clamitans, Cuvier, Reg. An., torn. ii. p. lOG. 

 Rana clamata, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 101. 



Description. The head is elongated, and bronzed above; the snout is pointed. 

 The upper jaw is bright green, which colour is continued under the eye and 

 tympanum to the shoulder. The lower jaw is white, marked with dusky spots or 

 bars; these form an indistinct band that is lost about the anterior e.xtremity. 

 The mouth is large, with two distinct groups of small teeth in the palate between 

 the posterior nares. 



The nostrils are lateral, and rather nearer the snout than in the Rana 

 fontinalis. The eyes are large and prominent, the pupil is black, the iris golden, 

 beautifully reticulated with black, and has an inner margin of bright yellow. The 

 tympanum is very large, bronzed, with a small spot of lighter colour in its centre. 

 The body is long, slender and delicate; olive colour or bronzed in front, and 

 dusky, approaching to black, behind, where it is slightly granulated; a cutaneous 



