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Pseudacris occidentalis (Baird and Girard) 



(Account written in 1929) 



SMOOTH CHORUS FROG 



In 1909 in September Professor J. C. Bradley took a frog which we then 

 identified as Chorophilus occidentalis. Not until 19 12 did we see Pseudacris 

 aUve in Georgia and Florida first hand in the field and the identification is 

 uncertain and doubtless incorrect. Cope (1889) pronounces two specimens 

 taken by W. J. Taylor at Allapaha, Georgia, as C. occidentalis. This locaHty 

 is in the upper Suwannee drainage. We have not yet critically examined 

 these two specimens. 



Holbrook in his own region (South Carolina) recognized in 1842 three 

 species: Cystignathus ornatus, Cystignathus nigrita and Hylodes ocularis — the 

 three distinct groups of today. In 1849 he gives the same three species. 

 LeConte (1855), another resident of these parts (in Georgia at Riceboro 

 whence Cope's C. occidentalis material largely came) gives three species (of 

 the three types) : Chorophilus nigrita, Chorophilus ornatus and Hylodes ocu- 

 laris. Apparently LeConte did not honor or recognize C. occidentalis at Rice- 

 boro, Georgia. Cope when distinguishing C. occidentalis makes it the eastern 

 representative of C. ornatus which he has from Texas. 



But Boulenger in 1882 does not help matters by recognizing both C. 

 ornatus and C. copii (C. occidentalis) in the same region. Sometimes it is hard 

 to believe that both Holbrook and LeConte are so lacking in taxonomic sense 

 and that old museum material from LeConte can be acclaimed new or C. 

 occidentalis by Cope and Boulenger. Rather what these cataloguers have 



