76 Fi'ogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



— i.o in upper eyelid width; interorbital width .77 — .77 — .625 — .75 — .72 — .68 

 in upper eyelid width; interorbital width .66 — .61 — .625 — .75 — .66 — .68 in 

 internasal width; interorbital width 2.44^ — 2.44 — 2.6 — 2.37 — 2.5 — 3.0 in inter- 

 tympanic width. 



Forelimb: Forelimb 1.86 — 2.0 — 2.43 — 2.0 — 1.74 — 1.7 in length of body; 

 forelimb 2.13 — 2.04 — 2.39 — 1.75 — 1.87 — 1.7 in hind limb; first finger 1.5 — 

 1.7 — 1-33 — 1-5— I-3I — 1-75 in third finger; second finger 1.5 — 1.7 — 1.33 — 1.63 

 — 1.4 — 1.75 in third finger; second finger i.o — i.o — i.o — 1.09 — 1.06 — i.o in 

 first finger; third finger .88 — .59— .75 — .72 — .95 — .64 in second toe; fourth 

 finger 1.5 — 1.88 — 1.66 — 1.63 — 1.5 — 2.0 in third finger; fourth finger .66 — .55 — 

 .825 — .72— .64 — .57 in first toe; internasal width 1.0 — 1.25 — 1.5 — 1.0 — 1.33 — 

 1.4 in first finger; internasal width 1.0 — 1.25 — 1.5 — .91 — 1.25 — 1.25 in second 

 finger; internasal width 1.5 — 2.12 — 2.0 — 1.5 — 1.75 — 2.5 in third finger; inter- 

 nasal width 1.0 — 1. 12 — 1.2 — .93 — 1. 16 — 1.27 in fourth finger. 



Hindlimb: length 1.14 — 1.02 — .99 — .87 — 1.07 — 1.0 in hind limb; tiba — 

 2.54^ — 2.83 — 2.8 — 3.2 — 2.83 — 2.95 in length; tibia 2.9 — 2.9 — 2.75 — 2.8 — 3.04 

 — 2.95 in hind limb; tibia 1.36 — 1.42 — 1.15 — 1.6 — 1.62 — 1.74 in fore limb; 

 tibia 1.09 — 1.06 — I.I — 1.08 — 1. 16 — 1. 13 in hind foot; first toe 2.0 — 2.0 — 1.5 — 

 1.625 — 2.22 — 2.25 in second toe; first toe 3,0—3.6 — 2.4 — 2.75 — 3.33 — 3.25 in 

 third toe; first toe 4.5 — 5.0 — 3.3 — 3.5 — 4.9 — 4.75 in fourth toe; first toe 2.5 — 

 2.8 — 2.125 — 2.0 — 2.7 — 2.62 in fifth toe; second toe 1.5 — 1.8 — 1.6 — 1.7 — 1.5 — 

 1.44 in third toe; second toe 2.25 — 2.5 — 2.2 — 2.15 — 2.2 — 2.1 in fourth toe; 

 second toe 1.25^ — 1.4 — 1.33 — 1.3 — 1.25 — 1.16 in fifth toe; third toe 1.5 — 1.4 — 

 1.37 — 1.27 — 1.46 — 1.46 in fourth toe; third toe .825 — .77 — .83 — .77 — .8 — .80 

 in fifth toe; fourth toe 1.33 — 1.32 — 1.25 — 1.35 — 1.27 — 1.36 in hind foot with- 

 out tarsus; fourth toe 1.2 — 1.24 — 1.2^1.25 — 1.09 — 1.21 in tibia; fourth toe 

 1.66 — 1.76 — 1.4 — 2.0—1.68 — 2.1 in fore limb; fifth toe 1.8 — 1.8 — 1.65 — 1.64 — 

 1.76 — 1.8 in fourth toe; internasal width — .66 — .625 — 1.0 — .66 — .75 — .74 in 

 first toe; internasal width 1.33 — 1.25 — 1.08 — 1.5 — 1.66 — 1.4 in second toe; 

 internasal width 2.0 — 2.25 — 2.4 — 1.83 — 2.5 — 2.2 in third toe; internasal width 

 3.0 — 3.15 — 3.3 — 2.33 — 3.66 — 3.4 in fourth toe; internasal width 1.66 — 1.75 — 

 2.0 — 1. 41 — 2.08 — 1.9 in fifth toe. 



HABITAT 



Colonel Nicholas Pike (1886, p. 213) holds 'Tt must, of course, be hunted 

 for on secluded places and woody hillsides, but I will venture to say even the 

 most knowing, in nine cases out of ten, will only find a Spadefoot by accident." 



FIRST APPEARANCE 



Holbrook places this in early March. Many authors have them appearing 

 from April onwards. 



On December 2, 1868 Dr. J. A. Allen (1868, pp. 186 & 187) speaks of their 

 appearance at both Springfield and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He says: 

 "On hearing the very pecuhar notes of this species six years since, at the well- 

 known locality near the Botanic Garden in Cambridge, I recognized it at once 

 as being something I had heard occasionally at Springfield. It was not, how- 



