388 Frogs of the OkefinoJcee Siramp 



in morning, in mid forenoon, at noon, and in late afternoon, or from about 

 Moniac to Camp Pinckney. 



In 1928 on the afternoon of June 8, we did not hear the regular call of this 

 species in the type locality. Only the squeal of a captured frog and the 

 startled note of an escaping frog did we record. In the evening of June 9 "in 

 the brick yard pools heard no end of Rana grylio, two deep notes. Once in a 

 while we would hear the snoring notes (3 or 4 of them) of Rana heckscheri." 

 Certainly the calls were sporadic and this exact period was not a breeding 

 season for the species. 



MATING 



Male (From life, August 18, 1922). General dorsal color citrine drab to 

 grayish olive becoming on top and sides of head and center of tympanum 

 dark olive buff, Isabella color or cinnamon brown. Ear drum except middle 

 mummy brown. On back of body and on head and on some of the sides is 

 some serpentine green. Under parts spotted white with glaucous gray or 

 light Payne's gray or pale drab on throat and breast. Throat with a little 

 citron green or deep chrysolite green. Spots on lower jaw rim four or five, sea- 

 foam yellow, to deep colonial buff in the spot just back of the angle of the 

 mouth. This spot except above surrounded by black. 



Black spot just below angle of mouth to and across the insertion of the 

 brachium. Three black spots on the front edge of the antebrachium. Rear 

 of fore legs black to tips of fingers and webs. Tops of the fingers with seafoam 

 yellow or deep colonial buff spots. 



Narrow black bars across the dorsum of the femur, tibia and hind foot. 

 Rear of femur with white unconnected spots on the bone brown ground color. 

 Rear edge of hind foot to tip of fourth and fifth toes black. 



Iris outside rim bright green-yellow, inner rim capucine orange; and in- 

 terval black with orange rufous spots. 



A younger specimen 65 mm. long is dark olive or deep olive on entire upper 

 parts and very warty. Throat is deep grayish olive. 



Two green frogs from the same place were: one, a female, dark olive buff 

 uniform; and a smaller one wood brown to avellaneous uniform; back of eye 

 and side of head and over angle of mouth apple green. Bars on hind legs 

 absent in female, scanty in smaller specimens. Both with costal folds. 



Male {From life, June 10, 1928). Back, top of head, top of fore legs and 

 hind legs citrine or buffy citrine. Under parts white spotted with olivaceous 

 black (3) or in lights becoming pale olive gray. So also on under sides of fore 

 arms and hind legs. Rear of femur with spotting of white or pale vinaceous 

 fawn. Not in lines of white as in Rana grylio. 



Throat with wash of oil yellow or sulphine yellow on a light mineral gray 

 background. Edge of lower jaw with light spots of white, pale chalcedony 

 yellow or cartridge buff. Back of angle of mouth and below tympanum is a 

 spot of light greenish yellow or pale chalcedony yellow. Another one back of 

 the first. Beginning at angle of mouth an oblique area of black or light 

 vinaceous drab extends to arm insertion, around it into axilla. A branch goes . 

 up back of tympanum. Rear of forearm has area of same on dorsum. Webs 



