ig6 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



1923b . The Salientia of the Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia. Copeia, Feb. i, 1923, 



No. 115, p. 34- 

 1926 Wright, A. H. The Vertebrate Life of Okefinokee Swamp in Relation to the Atlantic 



Coastal Plain. Ecology, Jan. 1926, Vol. VII, No. i, p. S:i. 

 1924 Wright, A. H. and A. A. Wright. A Key to the Eggs of the Salientia East of the 



Mississippi River. The American Naturahst, Vol. LVIII, July-August, 1924, p. 378. 



Pseudacris nigrita (LeConte) 



(PI I. Fig. 9) 

 COMMON NAMES 



Swamp Cricket Frog. Swamp Tree Frog. Swamp Chorus Frog. Swamp 

 Tree-toad. Striped Tree-frog. Rough Chorus Frog. Black spotted Tree Frog. 



RANGE 



Check list. "Type locahty not given. Range: South CaroHna to Mis- 

 sissippi." Stejneger & Barbour 1923, p. 28. 



Supplementary records. C. S. Brimley (19 10) has "Chorophilus nigritus 

 Rough Chorus Frog" from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Feb. 10, 1898, i." 

 At Jacksonville, Fla., R. F. Deckert (1914, No. 3) found "Chorophilus 

 nigritus LeConte, common during the winter months." Fowler (191 7, p. 39) 

 records it at Brickells Hammock and Mersa Isle near Miami, Fla., in Feb- 

 ruary and March 19 16. Loding (1922, p. 17) records it in Mobile County, 

 Ala. In South Carolina at Greenville A. L. Pickens (1927, p. 109) secured 

 several specimens. Holbrook (1842 Vol. IV, p. 108) gave its distribution 

 as Georgia and Carolina. LeConte observed it in the former State, and I 

 have seen it in the latter. LeConte (1855, p. 427) holds it "Inhabits Georgia 

 and South Carolina . . . " Our records and others like Cope send it into 

 Florida. 0. C. Van Hyning at Gainesville, Florida has sent me several times 

 representatives of this species. 



Local Okefinokee records. Our records are wholy outside the swamp 

 along its eastern border and at Fargo, Ga. On June 15, 1922, M. D. Pirnie 

 and the author took two specimens two miles east of Chesser Island. The 

 next was taken south of Spanish Creek near Folkston-Moniac road July 15, 

 1922. Three days later we took one at Murray Bay northeast of Chesser 

 School and Starhng Branch. On August 16, 1922 we secured one at one to one 

 and a fifth miles south of HilUard, Florida. In 192 1, August 5, F. Harper 

 recorded it at Fargo, Ga., on the southwestern edge of the swamp. In 1909 

 September 11, Professor J. C. Bradley collected a Pseudaci is which at the 

 time we identified as Chorophilus occidentalis. It looked to be P. nigrita and 

 comes from near the Okefinokee Swamp. This same collector secured two 

 P. nigrita at Tifton, Ga., September 8, 1910. 



GENERAL APPEARANCE 



On May 16, 1825 Captain John LeConte characterizes this form as fol- 

 lows "6 Rana nigrita; above black, speckled with small white warts; middle of 

 the back cinereous with an interrupted stripe of black, upper lips with a white 



