2o8 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



along the flanks. Length three-quarters of an inch. South Carolina and 

 Georgia." LeConte, 1855, calls it "The smallest of all known Ranina. From 

 the small size of this and the preceding species, the web between the third and 

 fourth toe is not very perceptible." Boulenger (1882) calls it "extremely 

 small." Cope (1887, p. 348) says that "its most striking features will be 

 found in the large size of the eyes, the acuteness of the head, the small tongue, 

 etc. The tibia is longer than in any of the genus." To Deckert (1915, p. 23) 

 "This is the smallest of the North American frogs, rarely exceeding 2/8 inch 

 from snout to vent. The head is pointed, the eyes large, the limbs and body 

 slender. The disks on the fingers and toes are small but distinct. The skin 

 of the back is covered with very fine warts, that of the belly finely granulated. 

 Evidently Miss Dickerson (1906, p. 162) did not have the species at hand. Of 

 it she writes "This species is said to be the smallest among North American 

 Hylas. Its unusual characteristics seem to be the pointed paw, the long legs, 

 and the light line along the outer edge of the tibia." 



C. S. Brimley's (1926, p. 82) revised key summarizes or distinguishes the 

 little chorus frog as having "snout truncate in side view, adult about two-thirds 

 of an inch in the length of head and body." 



These are the brownies of frogdom in the United States. They are usually 

 uniform gray, brown or greenish on the back, with a vitta from eye backward 

 as a stripe of variable length. The snout is pointed, projecting. They cer- 

 tainly at first acquaintance impress one as the possible young of some Hyh. 

 We thus puzzled and most authors who have seen them alive have gone 

 through the same stage, particularly if they are green like so many trans- 

 formed Hylas. 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS (191 2) 



The original color notes of Holbrook which have been constantly repeated 

 are: "the pupil black, and the iris grey, with a tinge of red. The upper lip is 

 white, and this color is continued in a line to the axilla; above this is a black 

 blotch which begins very narrow and becomes broad under the orbit, passes 

 over the shoulder, and there terminates. The chin and throat is yellowish- 

 white. The body — uniform chestnut-brown or bronze-coloured above and 

 yellowish-white below. The anterior extremities — brown above and clouded 

 white below; — The posterior extremities — reddish brown above, barred with 

 dusky, and obscure white below; . . . ." LeConte (1855, p. 429) describes 

 it as "Above brown or bronzed or silvery grey, very finely specked with dusky 

 or darker, a tolerably wide band of black proceeds from the tip of the nose to 

 the middle or beyond the middle of the sides, this is bordered beneath with 

 white. Chin and under side of the thighs speckled with black. Legs speckled 

 like the back and more or less spotted and barred with dusky, fingers and toes 

 all furnished with small disks." 



Cope in 1887 gives its general color as dark chestnut above, gives a median 

 dorsal stripe which bifurcates behind and says it can be distinguished from 

 other Pseudacris by its chestnut color Deckert (19 15, p. 23) who has seen 

 many characterizes it as follows: "The color is yellow, reddish brown or 



