1 6 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



Four of these are solely outside and Hyla gratiosa mainly so. Rana 

 aesopus is absent within the swamp because of its subterranean habits. 



There are about nine species of frogs which might be considered Austral, 

 Three of them are absent such as Bufo fowleri, Pseudacris feriarum and 

 Hyla andersonii. The latter ought to be present since its associated species 

 Rana virgatipes occurs in the swamp. The six Austral species are 



The widespread Hyla versicolor was recorded on St. Mary's River at 

 Folkston, Ga. and Rana catesbeiana has been at times reported to be near 

 the swamp though we did not take it. 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS (191 2) 

 AND MEASUREMENTS OF 191 2 MATERIAL 



These are parts of the 19 13 manuscript. They were painstakingly made 

 and are herein included as contributory to an understanding of the species. 

 They can be interpreted in part as more pertinent to the 1912-1914 period 

 in amphibia of the U. S. A. but in part they are apropos to the present dis- 

 cussion and paper, because partially they pertain to species little understood 

 and partially because they were conceived from a different angle than the 

 coloration from life or the scheme of measurements (relative) especially em- 

 ployed in this paper. 



MEASUREMENTS 



We have made relative measurements of the Okefinokee frogs to accord 

 with a system we are employing for all the frogs of the United States. We 

 choose from our and U. S. National Museum collections (supplemented from 

 the collections of other institutions) representatives of each species and 

 subspecies which measure in body length 20 mm., 28 mm., 36 mm., 44 mm., 

 56 mm., 66 mm., 68 mm., 82 mm., 95 mm., 108 mm., 125 mm., 136 mm., 

 and 150 mm. In this way if one of each of the Ranas of the swamp are meas- 

 ured at the same body length we have all our actual measurements in part 

 also relative if they be put in a table. For example at 56 mm., such a table 

 as the following might be constructed. (Table i) 



