Wood-frog. Wood Frog. 



Plate 



LXXVII. i. Fe- 

 male (xf). 2. Foot of male 

 with convex webs (xi). 3. 

 Female (xf). 4. Foot of fe- 

 male with concave webs ( X 1 ) 

 5. Egg mass, spherical in 

 shape (xi). 6. Male (xf). 



Ran a sylvatica Le Conte. 



Range: Quebec and Nova 

 Scotia to S. Carolina, west- 

 ward to the Great Plains 

 (Stejneger and Barbour, 1923, 



P- 37)- 



Habitat: Wooded areas. 

 Breeds in leaf-laden ponds 

 and transient pools of wooded 

 districts. Hibernates in logs, 

 stumps, under stones in 

 wooded ravines, or beneath 

 boards near woods, never in 

 the water. 



Size: Adults, 1 3/8-3 1/3 

 inches. (Males, 34-60 mm. 

 Females, 34-68 mm.). One fe- 

 male from Linville, N. C. 

 (No. 55159 in U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.) measures 82.5 mm. 



General appearance: The 

 wood-frog is medium in size, 

 either light or reddish brown 

 above, with a darker brown 

 streak or mask on either side 

 of the head and a dark line 

 from the eye to the tip of the 

 snout. There is a light line 

 along the upper jaw con- 

 tinuing to the shoulder. 

 Underneath, it is a glistening 

 white with a dark bar on the 

 upper arm. The legs are long, 

 marked with dark cross bars. 

 It has prominent dor- >- 



