236 REPTILES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



termixture of a duller brown color, with small white spots or 

 blotches ; legs with four transverse brown bands ; indistinct 

 bands on the feet ; five toed, that next the outer, much the 

 largest, being two and a half inches in length ; toes palmated ; 

 and tubercled like the toes of the anterior feet ; at the base of 

 the little toe, is a prominent projecting carina along the edge 

 of the phalangeal ridge of the largest toe ; a row of yellow dots 

 run to the second phalanx. 



Length of the head, one inch and a half ; width across the 

 tympanum, two inches. Eyes prominent, large ; pupils black ; 

 irides greenish yellow ; distance between the eyes, three lines. 

 Snout obtuse and yellowish, as well as the margin of the upper 

 jaw. Nostrils about a line in length, situated obliquely, half 

 way between the tip of the snout and the eye, appearing like 

 two small black points. Tympanum half an inch in diameter, 

 plane, looking like a large scale fastened to the head ; just 

 within its outer margin, a brownish circular ring ; within this 

 ring, greenish. Mouth large ; numerous small sharp teeth in 

 the upper jaw. Tongue large, fleshy. 



In the stomach of this specimen, taken in Muddy Pond, 

 Roxbury, I found five specimens of the " Helix albolabris" 

 with the contained animal ; one only was perfect, the others 

 being more or less digested ; this specimen measured one inch 

 in its greatest diameter, and was five lines in height. 



This species usually feeds upon frogs and insects, and the 

 farmers assert that it sometimes robs them of their chickens. 



R. fontinalis. Leconte. The Yellow throated green Frog. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. vol. i. p. 282. 

 Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 103. 

 N. A. Herpet. vol. iii. p. 85, et fig. 



This species appears very early in the spring, and continues 

 extensively distributed throughout the season. It may be at 

 once recognised by its greenish color, and yellow throat. 

 Length of the specimen before me, three inches ; length of 

 the posterior extremities, four inches and a half. Head and 



