males inflate lateral vocal sacs exactly like the meadow frog, and 

 emit a sound not unlike that species. 



Breeding: Nothing recorded. 



Notes: August 22, 1930. On the third floor of the Minneapolis 

 Public Library, Mrs. Olive Wiley has a museum of reptiles and 

 amphibia. One puzzle to her was a partly blue frog. It is the green 

 frog {Rana clamitans). In one of her aquaria she had a Ran a she 

 alluded to as a wood frog. It had the size and general appearance of a 

 wood frog, but very manifestly it was the meadow frog we sought, 

 Rana burnsi of Weed. It is a very bronzy, beautiful frog. Later, Mr. 

 O'Connor showed me another one which was green on the back. It 

 too had no dorsal spots. The first one came from Coon Lake about 

 10-12 miles northeast of St. Paul. This extends the range of this 

 species outside of the Minnesota River drainage. 



August 23, 1930. We arrived at Spicer, Kandiyohi Co., Minn., at 

 5:30 p. m., and sought out Mr. M. F. Delaske who told us that he 

 sometimes had plain bait frogs with no spots. . . . Mr. Oscar Hillman 

 did not recall seeing meadow frogs without spots. 



August 24, 1930. W T e started for Lake Florida and first went to 

 Shady Rest Inn. (Jens Larson). He had in his bait box fifteen frogs, 

 two half grown opes being Rana p. burnsi. . . . We next started for 

 Mr. Carl Holm's place. We stopped in a meadow where fringed 

 gentian, Lobelia syphilitica, smartweed, Gerardia paupercula and 

 other plants grew. Here we took one Rana p. burnsi and twenty Rana 

 p. pipiens. Some of these Rana p. burnsi are brown, others plain 

 green. Mr. Holm said he had found little meadow frogs without 

 spots. . . . 



W 7 e went to South Florida sloughs. Here we found 6 or 7 Rana p. 

 burnsi. We must have seen 200 frogs. The ratio of Rana p. burnsi 

 to Rana p. pipiens was 1 to 28 or 1 to 35. These were in sedgy grass. 

 Most of the frogs are doubtless in the heavier and taller grasses. Most 

 of the Rana p. burnsi were half grown. We took two large males in 

 quick succession. One was uniform green and the other brown. The 

 next day, when we opened their can, they were still of the same 

 colors. . . . 



W 7 e went to Sam Dilly's at Old Mill Inn two miles from New 

 London. He had in his bait stock one Rana p. burnsi. Rana p. burnsi 

 is a beautiful frog, brown or green when young, and equally variable 

 when grown. 



A problematical form. 



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