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RANA HALECINA.— A'a/m. 



Plate XXII. 



Characters. Body green above, with ovate spots of dark brovs^n, margined 

 with yellow; yellowish-white beneath. 



Synonymes. Rana aquatica; Water-frog, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 70. 

 Rana halecina, Kahii, Iter. Amcr., torn. iii. p. 46. 

 Shad-frog, Bartram, Travels in Carolina, Florida, &c., p. 278. 

 Rana pipiens, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., torn. iii. p. 1052. 

 Rana pipiens, Bonnaterre, Erpetologie, p. 5, tab. 4, fig. 3. 



Rana halecina, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 63 — Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 122. 

 Rana pipiens, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 105. 

 Rana pipiens, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 175. 

 Rana utricularia, Harlan, Silliman's Journ., vol. x. p. 60. 

 Rana halecina, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 102. 



Rana palustris, Guerin, Iconographie du Regne Animale — Reptiles, pi. 26; non Leconte. 

 Shad-frog, Vidgo. 



Description. This is one of our most beautiful species. The head is rather 

 small and pointed, with an ovate black spot on the top of each orbit: a very bright 

 bronze line* begins at the nose and runs to the eye; a second line of yellowish- 

 white extends from the nose to the shoulder; the latter is less extensive in the 

 male animal, ending at the vocal sac. The upper jaw is dark-coloured, with 

 several yellowish-white spots, the lower jaw is almost white. 



* This line is yellowish in the young. 



