42 2 Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp 



.91-.93-.86 in width of head; head to angle of mouth 2.66-2.83-2.73-2.72-3.5 

 in length of body; head to rear of tympanum 2.24-2.5-2.43-2.5-2.82 in length 

 of body; snout .66-.88-1.0-.96-.84 in ist finger; snout .66-.5-.62-.46-.60 in 

 4th finger; snout .41-.55-.s7-.7-.64 in first toe; eye . 87-1. 0-.85-1. 07-1. 06 in 

 tympanum; eye i. 5-1. 63-1. 5-1. 85-1. 6 in snout; eye 1.0-1.4-1.5 in first finger; 

 tympanum 2.28-2.0-2.33-2.0-2.1 in intertympanic width; tympanum 1.7- 

 1. 63-1. 75-1. 73-1. 77 in snout; internasal width .85-.88-1.0-.93-1.05 in upper 

 eyelid width; interorbital width i. 4-1. 28-1. 3 7-1. 3-1. 3 in internasal space; 

 interorbital width 1.2-1.14-1.37-1.2-1.4 in upper eyelid width; interorbital 

 width 3.2-3.14-3.5-3.0-3.6 in intertympanic width. 



Forelimb: 1.86-2. 0-1.75-2. 08-2.1 in length (snout to vent); forelimb 2.73- 

 3 -3-3 -5-3 -7-3 -33 in hind limb; first finger 1.3 7 5-93-8 5-.80-1.1 in third 

 finger; second finger i. 8-1. 33-1. 4-1. 33-1. 29 in third finger; second finger 1.13- 

 1. 45-1. 7-1. 66-1. 15 in first finger; third finger i.o-i. 26-1. 44-1. 4-1. 25 in second 

 toe; fourth finger 1.375-1. 66-1. 35-1. 66-1. 5 in third finger; fourth finger .63- 

 1.2- 92-1. 5-1. 07 in first toe; internasal width 1.14-1.7-1.9-1.94-1.68 in first 

 finger; i.o-i. 22-1. 08-1. 16-1. 46 in second finger; i. 55-1. 66-1. 8-1. 55-1. 85 in 

 third finger; 1.1-1.0-1.17-.92-1.22 in fourth finger. 



Hindlimh: length of body i. 46-1. 7-2.0-1. 8-1. 58 in hind limb; tibia 1.86- 

 1.7-1.55-1.45-1.82 in length; 2.73-2.84-3.1-3.02-2.88 in hind limb; 1.0-.84- 

 .88-.81-.86 in fore hmb; 1.33-.88-.91-.93-.91 in hind foot; first toe 2.2-1.9- 

 2.16-1.55-1.78 in second toe; 3.0-2.8-2.75-2.27-2.4 in third toe; 4.4-4.3-4.75- 

 3.77-4.0 in fourth toe; 2.2-3.7-3.16-2.77-2.5 in fifth toe; second toe 1.36- 

 1. 47-1. 3-1. 47-1. 4 in third toe; 2.0-2.26-2,2-2.43-2.23 in fourth toe; i. 27-1. 9- 

 1. 44-1. 70-1. 40 in fifth toe; third toe i. 44-1. 53-1. 7-1. 7-1. 5 in fourth toe; 

 .93-1.32-1.15-1. 2-1.0 in fifth toe; fourth toe 1.8-1.06-1.12-1.1-1.3 in hind 

 foot; 1.36-1.2-1.26-1.17-1.3 in tibia; i. 36-1. 02-1. 1-.95-1. 16 in forelimb; 

 fifth toe 1. 55-1. 16-1. 5-1. 4-1. 6 in fourth toe; internasal width .7-1.1-1.1-1.36- 

 1.3 in first toe; 1.7 5-2. 1-2. 3 5-2. 1-2. 3 in second toe; 2.03-3. 1-3. 0-3. 01-3. 2 in 

 third toe; 3. 14-4.8-5. 1-5.2-5. i in fourth toe; 2.0-4.1-3.2-3.7-3.2 in fifth toe. 



HABITAT 



In 191 2 we did not find it commonly in the lakes, runs or prairies. Its 

 habits accorded with those of our northern R. pipiens and we did not particu- 

 larly study the species. More young and tadpoles than adults were taken. 

 They were either in or about the small ponds and pools along the edge of the 

 islands, or in the cypress thickets about the islands. In 192 1 and 1922 we 

 made most of our records in cypress ponds or temporary pools, though 

 prairies, runs, Suwannee Canal, river swamps and overflowed roads and 

 ditches and railroad ditches also added to our localities for the species. In 

 the swamp it is ideally of the edge of cypress ponds and bays or small pools 

 and ponds at an island's edge. 



Wm. Bartram (1791 pp. 278, 279) describes it thus: "The shad frog, so 

 called in Pennsylvania, from their appearing and croaking in the spring 

 season at the time the people fish for shad : these are a beautiful spotted frog, 

 of a slender form, five or six inches in length from the nose to the extremities; 



