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Frogs of the Okefinokee Sivamp 

 Hyla femoralis Latreille 



(PI. II, Fig. 8; V, Fig. 2; VII, Fig. 3; X, Fig. 4; XII, Fig. 13; XV, Fig. 3; XVII; XXVII; 

 XXVIII; Text Fig. I, 17) 



COMMON NAMES 



Pine Woods Tree Frog. Pine Woods Tree Toad. Pine Tree Toad. Pine 

 Tree Frog. "Scraper Frog." Femoral Hyla. 



RANGE 



Check list. "Type Locality: Carolina. Range: Carolinas to Florida and 

 west to Texas." Stejneger and Barbour Check List 1923, p. 30. 



Supplementary records. In 1926 (Wright, 1926, p. 82) we considered Hyla 

 femoralis as one of the eleven Okefinokee frogs "which occur mainly in the 

 Sabalian region or Gulf strip of the Lower Austral region." Its restricted 

 range in North Carolina (Brimley, 1907, pp. 159) in Craven and New Hanover 

 Counties and near Wilmington (Myers, 1924, p. 60) N. C, in South Carolina 

 at Mt. Pleasant (Schmidt, 1924, p. 68) and Goose Creek and Cope's record 

 for Georgia (Cope, 1889, p. 372) from Riceborough around to Nashville and 

 Allapaha directly west to Waycross, Ga., also confirms this interpretation. 



In 1922 on June 8 we did not hear it near Cheraw, S. C, when Hyla 

 cinerea, H. andersonii, Rana virgatipes, Bufo fovderi, Hyla versicolor were 

 calling, nor at Columbia, S. C, June 9, nor at Millen Sta., June 10 {Hyla 

 squirella, Hyla cinerea, Hyla gratiosa, Hyla versicolor calling). On June 11 

 from the Altamaha near Jesup through Screven to Waycross and from Way- 

 cross to Folkston we heard them in the piney flat woods. In February, 191 1, 

 J. C. Bradley took the species at Waynesville, Ga. 



In 19 1 7 our route led through Raleigh, Spartansburg, Atlanta, Montgom- 

 ery to Mobile, Alabama. Not until we reached the Tombigbee river below 

 Jackson in Washington County did we record our first specimens of this 

 species. Then we came into Sabalian influences. In 1923 Viosca (1923, p. 

 36) records it from the Longleaf Pine Hills of Louisiana. 



Little is known about this species and writers have assumed it not so 

 abundant as others. Brimley (1910, p. 12) speaks of it as "apparently less 

 common than cinerea and squirella." In the piney woods we have more notes 

 on it than any other Hylid (except Acris) it was so abundant. Like Hyla 

 gratiosa at times it betakes itself into the high pines and is hard to get, and 

 like Hyla gratiosa is a decidedly Sabalian or Gulf strip species. 



Local Okefinokee records. In 191 2 we took it in the following Okefinokee 

 localities: Billy Island, Mixon's Hammock, Honey Island, Prairie-heads. 

 In 192 1 on Billy, Chesser, Floyd, Craven, Black- Jack Islands, the Pocket, 

 Craven Hammock, Billy's Bay, Honey Island Prairie, Suwannee Canal, St. 

 Mary's and Suwannee Rivers. In 1922 we secured it at Trader's Hill, Camp 

 Pinckney, Folkston, Starhng Branch, St. Mary's, Chesser Island and other 

 places in Georgia and at Callahan, Florida. It is essentially a pine barrens 

 species. 



