Hyla versicolor 325 



Hyla versicolor (Le Conte) 



(PI. II, Fig. 9; IV, Figs, 3, 8; VII, Fig. 2; X, Figs. 9, 10; XII, Fig. 12; XV, Fig. 6; XVII; 



XXXIII; Text Figs, i, 18) 



{See Life History in Carnegie Publication No. 197, 1914, PP- 44-51). 



COMMON NAMES 



Common Tree Toad. Common Tree Frog. Tree Toad. The Northern 

 Tree-toad. Chameleon Hyla. 



RANGE 



Check list. Maine, southern Canada, west to Minnesota, south to the 

 Gulf States (Texas and Arkansas in part only). — Stejneger & Barbour, 1923, 

 p. 32. 



Supplementary records. Edith R. Force (1925, p. 25) records Hyla versi- 

 color in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, in 1924. 



In Alabama Holt (1924, p. 95) records this species from Sand Mountain, 

 Jackson County. 



In 1 91 7 we found it on May 31 at Petersburg, Va.; on June 2 at Din- 

 widdle, Va.; on June 11 several near Flatwood, Ala. From 1913 to 1925, we 

 have taken this species from Dorset, Ontario, to near Jacksonville, Fla., and 

 thence west to Beeville, Texas. 



Local Okefinokee records. In 192 1, F. Harper recorded this species about 

 ten miles south of Moniac on the Georgia side. Again "during the evening 

 of August 16, after a thunderstorm several individuals were found in voice at 

 Camp Pinckney." In 1922 we heard them from June 16 onward at Camp 

 Pinckney, Trader's Hill, Spanish Creek Woods, Thompson's Landing, St. 

 Mary's River, also along road from Folkston to Chesser Island. 



MEASUREMENTS 



(Recent Material) 



Head to angle of mouth i.o (18 mm. transformation)-!. 33 (28 mm.)- 

 1.41 (44 mm. c?')-i.5 (56 mm. 9) in length; head to rear of tympanum 

 (absent)-i.2 (28 mm.)-i.i7 (44 mm.)-i.i7 (56 mm.) in length; head to 

 angle of mouth 3.6-3. 1-3.66-4. i in length of body; head to rear of tympanum 

 ( )-2.8-3.o-3.3 in length of body; snout .66-.63.1.07-.94 in first finger; 

 snout 1.0-1.1-1.15-1.3 in fourth finger; snout .5-.54-.7-.60 in first toe; eye 

 1. 2-1. 37-1. 08-1. 4 in snout; eye ( )-.75-.5o-.66 in tympanum; eye .8-.87- 

 1.16-1.33 in first finger; tympanum ( )-i. 83-2. 16-2. 12 in snout; tympanum 

 ( )-3. 0-4. 5-4.0 in intertympanic width; internasal width .75-.83-1.12-1.0 

 in upper eyelid space; interorbital width .8-1.2-.9-.83 in internasal width; 

 interorbital width .60-1.0-1.0-.82 in upper eyelid width; interorbital width 

 ( )-3. 6-3. 1-2.66 in intertympanic width. 



Forelimh: Forelimb i. 8-1. 4-1. 9-1. 6 in length of body; forehmb 2.2-2.2- 

 2.5-2.12 in hind limb; first finger 2. 0-2. 3-1. 3-1. 6 in hind finger; second finger 

 1. 6-1. 6-1. 2-1. 3 in third finger; second finger .8-.7-.94-.8 in first finger; third 



