2 28 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



RANGE 



Check list. "Type Locality: Anderson, South Carolina. 



Range. White cedar swamps in Southern New Jersey". Stejneger and 

 Barbour, 1923, p. 29. 



Supplementary records. The Check List (above) appeared about coincident 

 with the pubhcation of the extended studies of Noble and Noble (1923). In 

 view of their detailed observations the present writer will not attenpt a long 

 account of this species except to summarize some topics so that this species (a 

 possible hypothetical species of the Okefinokee Swamp region) may have the 

 same form treatment as the others. 



The writer, unlike some of the Philadelphia or American Museum groups, 

 has not had the continued experience with this species some of these gentlemen 

 have. Nevertheless, he has seen and recorded this species in North Carolina 

 and New Jersey near the two extremities of its range. After Baird's descrip- 

 tion (1854, pp. 60, 61) all the records from 1854-1904 are from the Philadelphia 

 (and its environs) group of naturalists (Leidy, Cope, Peters, Abbott, Moore, 

 Stone, Fowler, Rehn, Klein, etc.). From 1898 onward the New York group 

 (W. T. Davis, James Chapin, W. D. Miller, C. L. Camp, K. P. Schmidt, G. K. 

 Noble, G. S. Myers and R. Sackett), led by W. T. Davis have followed the 

 trail until its habits are well enough known for life-history studies. Early in 

 that search James Chapin was associated with W. T. Davis and our first ac- 

 quaintance of this species alive came through two specimens "sent July 21, 

 1906, to Dr. Burt G. Wilder from James Chapin, these he collected at Lake- 

 hurst, N. J." We mention this because Fuertes (who recently died) painted 

 one of these frogs — one of his only amphibian paintings (now in possession of 

 Professor H. D. Reed). Besides from 1906 specimens of these gentlemen, 

 came Miss Dickerson's excellent plate of a female (Dickerson 1906, Plate VII). 



It is interesting that the first two, W. T. Davis and James Chapin (who 

 first began 1 904-1 906 studying this form) should be the first to record it from 

 North Carolina (1920) and we (1922) who received first five specimens (1906) 

 from them, should independently (1922) record this species in North Carolina 

 35-50 miles southwest of Southern Pines, their locahty of 1920. Our record is 

 midway between Rockingham, N. C. and Cheraw, S. C. on the North Carolina 

 side of the State Line at Everett's Pond. Southern Pines country is partially 

 of the same river drainage (Pedee River). If any one wishes to record it in 

 South Carolina he can follow the Pedee down from Everett's Pond and no 

 doubt easily find it. 



The record from Anderson, S. C, has always bothered the writer. In 191 7 

 we went through Anderson and had no opportunity to collect at this place. 

 Anderson is twice as far from the coast as Southern Pines, N. C. or Cheraw, 

 S. C. is from the coast. Possibly the species extends that far inland along the 

 Savannah River. No fife zone map can show all the river valley extensions 

 inland. Anderson's tree frog is a lower Austral (Austroriparian, Upper Coastal, 

 etc.) form, and Anderson, S. C. is in Upper Austral (CaroHnian, Piedmont, 

 etc.) country. If such terminology be employed it may be well to remember 



