IV 



Salientian Range Extensions in Oklahoma and a 

 New State Record 



ARTHUR N. BRAGG 



THE University of Oklahoma Biological Survey maintained a series of 

 collecting trips in Oklahoma from mid-May to early July, 1946, and 

 again during June and July, 1947. Between these dates each year I, as 

 a member of this group, visited most of the major ecological and biological 

 provinces w^ithin the state, many of them more than once, and collected 

 Salientia as opportunity permitted. All collections of frogs and toads were 

 recorded as collected by me, but many specimens were actually caught by my 

 companions of 1946, Dr. A. O. Weese and Mr. W. L. Burger (and a few by 

 Mr. U. T. Waterfall in 1947), to whom acknowledgment is due. 



Although several hundreds of specimens were taken and deposited in the 

 University of Oklahoma Museum (Division of Zoology), this paper reports 

 only those which appear to be new county or state records. In a few cases it 

 goes into more detail concerning the ranges of forms where doubt has existed 

 or still exists. Notes on behavior and habits of some species are also given 

 wherever these notes are thought to add enough to our understanding to 

 justify their inclusion. 



Five symbols indicate the type of records obtained, as follows: (1), at 

 least one adult or juvenile taken where previously the form had not been re- 

 corded; (T), tadpoles but no adults or juveniles taken; (2), at least one adult 

 or juvenile taken which confirms a former call or sight record; (C), the dis- 

 tinctive call clearly recognized; or (S), specimen seen in a region where here- 

 tofore the species has not been certainly known. The county is in all cases 

 used as a convenient unit. 



1. Acris crepitans Baird. 



Blaine (2), Caddo (1), Jackson (I), Jefiferson (1), Johnston (1), King- 

 fisher (1), Noble (2), Tillman (I). With these records only six counties in 

 Oklahoma remain in which this species has not been collected. In three of 

 these there are call records. There seems little doubt that it is state-wide in 

 occurrence, since the counties where it is unknown are widely scattered. The 

 two western counties of the Panhandle may be an exception, however. 



2. Bit jo CO gnat us Say. 



Woodward (1). A single large adult taken at the western Woodward 

 city limits. 



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