74 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



times heard a similar croaking in a temporary pond of water near his dwelHng, 

 but he never went to see from whence the noise proceeded. Something of the 

 same kind has been noticed in Framingham, in this State, by a student of 

 medicine, who relates that he and a friend of his were kept awake on the 

 identical night, June i6th, 1842, by the noise of frogs or something of the 

 kind in a ditch of water near his lodging; that they went out to discover 

 what they were, but on drawing near the place, the noise or cry, which re- 

 sembled that of young crows, suddenly ceased, and nothing was to be seen." 



In 1868 C. C. Abbott in New Jersey found that "This little frog is not 

 abundant, and is generally met with when found, in the Southern counties 

 of the State." 



In 1909 Julius Hurter and John K. Strecker, Jr., record it in Green way, 

 Arkansas. 



These previous records are not exactly supplemental but intended to show 

 that quite early the extremes of its range were fairly well known. 



In May, 1922, in Florida, "Richard Deckert (1922, p. 88) ran over one at 

 Homestead, in the evening on the return trip." In 1923 A. H. Wright and 

 A. A. Wright report this species from the Okefinokee region, Georgia and 

 Florida. The same year Director T. VanHyning (1923, p. 68) of the Florida 

 State Museum reports two found at night, March 18, at Gainesville, Florida. 



In the summer of 1926 A. I. Ortenburger (1927, p. 46) in Western Okla- 

 homa reports "Scaphiopus holbrookii holhrookii (Harlan) (in) Cimarron County 

 5 miles north of Kenton." In 1926 Wright (p. 83) gives this species as a 

 Lower Austral species and gives its range as Massachusetts to Florida. The 

 reason for the present author limiting it to Florida and not extending it to 

 Arkansas and parts west of Florida is not now apparent. 



Local Okefinokee records. In 192 1 we were in the center of the swamp and 

 did not record this species. Mr. Matt Hickox told us of a frog different from 

 any we had on Billy's Island. His description of a special frog or toad which 

 came at heavy rainy periods we suspected to be Scaphiopus holhrookii. He 

 said it occurred in the vicinity of Braganza on the northeast border of the 

 swamp. 



In 192 1 Mr. Harper heard from Mr. Dave Mizzell (on Folkston-Moniac 

 road) who told him of a frog "called 'storm frog' because he appears when 

 there are storms or floods. It hollers wank! It folds up so that you can't 

 find its legs. It is larger than the 'hop toad'. One was dug up in a potato 

 field." 



In 1922 immediately after our arrival on Chesser Island on June 14, Mr, 

 Ridley Chesser told us of frogs he heard near their barn that were neither 

 carpenter nor gopher frogs. We suspected it of being spade-foots and on 

 Chesser Island. A week later, June 22, in one of the deep pits at Camp 

 Pinckney, Folkston, Ga., we found little else than spade-foot tadpoles. The 

 pit was heavily shaded by oaks. The following day, June 23, we recorded 

 tadpoles in a pond the Trader's Hill side of Brook's R. R. one mile from 

 Trader's Hill. On June 27 we make the following note that "because of the 

 discovery of these tadpoles in two different places this species seems a com- 



