Hyla andersonii 229 



that C. S. Brimley and F. Sherman, Jr. (1908) send the lower Austral Hne from 

 Raleigh to Charlotte, N. C. or farther west. In this event possibly Anderson's 

 tree frog is not from Anderson. 



Of its northernmost range, W. DeW. Miller (1906, p. 68) writes: "About 

 eight years ago James Chapin and I found this beautiful Tree Frog at the 

 Runyon Pond two miles south of Sayreville, Middlesex County. Since that 

 time I have found it at several other localities in the same region — one mile 

 south of Old Bridge, about one mile southeast of Browntown and at Freneau 

 near Mattewan. These localities are all in the sandy pine barren 'island' 

 north of the Pine Barrens proper. Thus this species extends northward to 

 within three miles or less of the lower Raritan River, its range coinciding at 

 this point with that of the Carolina Chickadee." 



Of its range northward, W. T. Davis, two years later (1908, p. 49) writes, 

 "In addition to the notes on this species printed in the American Naturalist, 

 it may be added that it occurs still further north than Lakehurst and Farming- 

 dale, and has been heard by the writer at Jamesburg on the South River. 

 Messrs. Miller, Chapin, and Skinner have found the frog at Runyon, also on 

 the South River. It no doubt occurs as far north as the Raritan." 



If we call it a pine barren's form we must remember it is not recorded on 

 Long Island nor westward of Anderson, S. C, in Georgia, Alabama, etc. If it 

 be termed a sphagnaceous tree frog why is it not in the Dismal Swamp, Great 

 Alligator Dismal Swamp (N. C.) or Okefinokee Swamp? On the basis of as- 

 sociated species Scaphiopus holhrookii extends into New England and south- 

 ward to Florida and Texas. Acris gryllus is not comparable in the southern 

 states and if not found in pine barren bogs in New Jersey, it is abundant in 

 such places and many other localities in the South. Even yet in spite of the 

 fact that Hyla andersonii outstrips it northward (See W. D. Miller), Rana 

 virgatipes seems its nearest associated species, though Rana virgatipes outstrips 

 it southward to Okefinokee Swamp. 



In northward range Rana sphenocephala if recognized as distinct doubtless 

 about coincides in its northern extension with H. andersonii. Though not yet 

 recorded from New Jersey (1925) some meadow frogs from Lakehurst south- 

 ward look much like Rana sphenocephala. 



After my experiences with Rana virgatipes in New Jersey, North Carolina 

 and Georgia the writer instinctively expects and looks for H. andersonii 

 wherever he hears Ra7ia virgatipes. True in Dismal Swamp, Craven Lakes, 

 Wilmington and in Okefinokee Swamp they are not yet recorded, but they 

 will doubtless be recorded near these places with intensive search. To know 

 the notes of frogs gives the best clue to possible new records for "rare" frogs. 



GENERAL APPEARANCE 



Cope (1887, p. 365) held it "in proportions and general appearance similar 

 to the Hyla arborea of Europe." In its stout body it differs from the more 

 slender Hylas, H. cinerea and H. cinerea evittata. By its lateral band, it has 

 its dorsal color more sharply defined from venter than in any other species of 

 our Hylids. Brimley (1907, p. 158) gave the "plum colored line along the 

 sides of body with yellow spots below it" as its distinct mark. 



