Rana syhenocephala 419 



1906 Dickerson, M. C. The Frog Book, 1906, pp. 224-225. 



1883 Gamier, J. H. The Mink or Hoosier Frog. The American Naturahst, XVII, Sept. 

 1883, No. 9, pp. 945-954- 



19 14 Jackson, H. H. T. The Land Vertebrates of Ridgeway, Wisconsin: Their Ecological 

 Succession and Source of Ingression. Bull. Wise. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. 12, Nos. i 

 and 2, June 19 14, pp. 17, 18. 



1898 Mearns, E. A. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. X, p. 325. 



1915 Pope, P. H. The Distribution of the Northern Frog, Rana septentrionalis Baird in 

 Maine. Copeia, No. 16, March 15, 1915, pp. i, 2. 



1918 . A New Record for Raria septentrionalis Baird. Copeia, No. 64, Dec. 31, 



1918, pp. 96, 97. 

 1922 Weed, A. C. New Frogs from Minnesota. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Oct. 17, 1922, 



Vol. 35, pp. 107-110. 

 1915 Wright, A. H. The Mink Frog, Rana septentrionalis Baird, in Ontario. Copeia 



No. 23, October 15, 1915, pp. 46-48. 

 1920 Wright, A. H. The Frog. U. S. Dep't Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, Doc. 888, 



1920, pp. II, 16, 34, 35. 



Rana sphenocephala (Cope) 



(PI. Ill, Fig. 7; V, Fig. 12; IX, Fig. 3; XI, Figs. 9, 10; XIII, Fig. 2; XVI, Figs, 7, 8; XVII; 

 XL; XLI, Text Figs. 1,21) 



COMMON NAMES 



Southern Leopard Frog. Southern Meadow Frog. "Spring Frog." Spotted 

 Frog. Water Frog. Shad Frog. 



RANGE 



Check list. "Range: Southeastern States." (Stejneger & Barbour 1923, 



P- 37)- 



Supplementary records. Deckert (1914, Nos. 3 & s) gives two meadow 

 frogs at Jacksonville, Florida, each abundant. Whether it be they were 

 puzzling or the two were there or the distinction between the two species be 

 poor we cannot understand. Those just north of Jacksonville, Florida, in 

 Okefinokee Swamp are of the R. sphenocephala form. In 1922 the same author 

 (p. 88) finds only Rana sphenocephala in Dade Co., Florida. Of these he 

 "saw numbers along the shore of the brackish canal on the right of the 

 Ingraham Highway, between Royal Palm Hammock and Cape Sable. Loding 

 (1922, p. 20) records it in three counties in Alabama. Viosca, Jr., in 1918 

 (p. 160) records only R. sphenocephala but in recent years I believe he has 

 found both R. pipiens and R. sphenocephala as has Ortenberger (1927, pp. 46, 

 47) in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Edith R. Force (1925, p. 25) recorded it 

 from Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma. Philip H. Pope (1919, p. 97) carried it west- 

 ward into Texas as far as Houston, Texas. Ortenberger (1921, p. 75) found 

 each species R. pipiens and R. sphenocephala in Indiana. The recorded range 

 northward along the Atlantic Coast is to North Carohna where (G. S. Myers, 

 1914, p. 60) and Brimley & Mabie (1925, p. 15) record it. In 1923 we saw 

 meadow frogs at Lakehurst, N. J. and in southern New Jersey strikingly 

 like Rana sphenocephala. 



Local Okefinokee records. In 1 9 1 2 we found it on the outskirts of the swamp 

 as well as in the swamp. We secured mainly tadpoles and young in 1912. 

 In 192 1 we recorded it on Billy's Island, Chesser's Island, Suwannee Canal, 



