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er. Barking Frog. Coat Bet. Florida 



Tree Frog. Georgia Tree 

 Frog. Florida Hyla. 



Plate XLV. i, 7. Males 

 (x§). 1. Male croaking (xi). 

 3. Male in a cornfield at 

 night (x}). 4. Female (x§). 



5. Transforming frog (xj). 



6. Eggs (xf). 

 Hyla gratiosa Le Conte. 

 Range: North Carolina (B. 



B. Brandt 1933) to Florida to 

 Louisiana. 



Habitat: Trees of ham- 

 mocks, pine barrens and bays. 

 Breeds in pine barren ponds 

 and cypress ponds. 



Size: Adults, 2-2 3/4 

 inches. (Males, 49-68 mm. 

 Females, 50-68 mm.). 



General appearance: This is 

 our largest native tree frog, 

 ashen gray, purplish or green 

 in color. The skin is evenly 

 granular, the back evenly 

 covered with elliptical or 

 round spots darker than the 

 general color and encircled 

 with black. These spots may 

 be absent in some of the 

 color phases this frog as- 

 sumes. A light stripe extends 

 along the sides, bordered be- 

 low by a purplish brown one. 

 There is some yellow on the 

 sides in axilla of arm and in 

 the groin. The under parts 

 are creamy or pinkish white. 

 The throat of the male is 

 green or yellow with dark 

 spots just back of the chin, 

 while that of the female has 

 the center throat light, and 



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