Rana grylio 365 



Supplementary records. Dr. Stejneger (1901) had it from Kissimee, 

 Pensacola, Florida and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and gave its range as 

 "Florida and Gulf Coast west to Mississippi." In 1906 Miss Dickerson re- 

 ported it from Ozona, Florida. In 191 2 the author captured several specimens 

 and saw many more in Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia. From 1914-1922 

 Deckert reported it from Jacksonville, Royal Palm Hammock, Musa Isle, 

 Miami River, Florida. In 1916 T. Barbour reported it in some of the Florida 

 lakes and in 1920 he notes it near Palm Beach, Florida. In 1922 Loding in- 

 cluded this form with the comment "Alabama records: none." However, 

 the distinctive note of this frog has been heard by the writer and others in 

 Mobile County. In 191 7 our transcontinental party of 13 individuals (Am. 

 Naturalist, April, May, June 19 19) camped near Theodore, Alabama. Prof. 

 J. C. Bradley remarked "Across the road from our camp, some peculiar 

 alligator-like grunts proved to be emanating from the southern bull-frog, 

 Rajia grylio. This species was described only about fifteen years ago." We 

 captured and photographed two or three of these adults. In 192 1 and 1922 

 we found them through the Okefinokee Swamp. In two different articles 

 Viosca in Louisiana (1923), noted their presence throughout "the entire 

 southern portion of this state," a westward extension of its range. Earlier in 

 19 1 8 Viosca writes "During the last year I have made positive identification 

 of this species in many localities in the southern part of Louisiana." Boulenger 

 (1920) secured specimens from New Orleans and Plaquemine, Louisiana. It 

 is now known from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. 



Inasmuch as we called this species a Sabalian species in 1924 (Ecology, 

 January 1926, Vol. VII, p. 82) we would expect it to extend to South Carolina 

 or Wilmington, N. C, and records from eastern coastal Texas are to be 

 expected. 



Local Okefinokee records. This is one of the characteristic notes of all the 

 water lily prairies of the swamp and the open cypress ponds. We also re- 

 corded it in the grassy or weedy cypress bays, along the river swamps of the 

 Suwannee and St. Mary's Rivers, along the floating vegetation of the edges 

 of water courses or lakes in the wooded swamp. It is decidedly aquatic and 

 breeds in its accustomed habitat of the rest of the year. 



GENERAL APPEARANCE 



This is a southern bull-frog of the Sabalian or Humid division of the Lower 

 Austral Zone with shorter snout, narrower head and shorter fourth toe. In 

 coloration it is an overgrown Rana virgatipes without two dorsal stripes, and 

 is a beautiful frog. 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS (19 1 2) 



General back color is olive citrine or brownish olive, bone brown or blackish 

 brown all over. In small specimens there is hardly a dark spot, but in the 

 olive forms the dorsum from the tympanum backwards is covered with 

 prominent black blotches with those on each side from tympanum to groin, 

 more or less merged. On the forelimbs of all the specimens there are no spots 



