General Discussion 



Table i 



In this paper we will not attempt to include all the measurements for the 

 species of the Okefinokee region. These are reserved for a growth paper in 

 process of organization and therein will be incorporated. 



This chart means that if one finds a specimen 6-10 mm. in body length 

 it might be a transforming or transformed frog of nine species; or at 11-20 

 mm. it might be one of 16 frogs (one of 15 transforming species or young of 

 14 species, or a male of 6 species or a female of 5 species) ; at 68 mm. there are 

 ten species to consider, a male or a female of Bufo terrestris, Scaphiopus 

 holbrookii, Hyla gratiosa, Rana sphenocephala, Rana septentrionalis, or Rana 

 damitans, a male of Rmia aesopus, or immatures of Rana heckscheri, R. 

 grylio, or Rana catesheiana; at 95 mm. four species only are to be considered, 

 a female Rana aesopus or either a male or a female of R. heckscheri, R. grylio 

 and Rana catesheiana; at 150 mm. only two species enter, a male or female 

 each of R. grylio and Rana catesheiana. 



This chart might suggest the desirability of a key at each size for true 

 comparisons. At 6-10 mm. it might thus prove a more desirable key because 

 each of the nine species are at transformation and are comparable. In the 

 same way at 95 mm. we have mature males and females of the green frog, 

 gopher frog, Heckscher's frog, southern bullfrog, and bullfrog. Even here 

 however we have the green frog and gopher frog nearing the extreme of their 

 size and females of the other three just about beginning breeding. Possibly 



