mo.1658 NOTES <>.\ VERTEBRATES FROM INDIANA -HAHN. 5(}\ 



RANA PIPIENS (Schreber). 

 LEOPARD FROG. 



Not uncommon, yet far less abundant than in the Kankakee 

 marshes or even the hilly southeastern part of Indiana. Ii is 

 occasionally seen in the woods, lait is most abundant in meadow- and 

 pastures. The young do not appeal- to stay near the water in the 

 late summer. Newly transformed young were seen leaving the 

 water during the last week in June and throughout duly. This is 

 of the species which seems to hibernate in the caves to some extent. 

 Leopard frogs were seen in Mime numbers not far within the month 

 of the cave during March ami they seemed to he moving toward th - 

 outside. This frog, also, was active in .January. At this time high 

 water overflowed the bottoms and drove many hibernating animals 

 from their winter retreats. Leopard frogs, cricket frogs, and green 

 fro<r- were among the species observed at this time. 



Specimens from this locality should, perhaps, he referred to the 

 form sphenocephaly although they partake of some of the charac- 

 ters of pipit us also, a- the two varieties are defined by Cope. Spots 

 scarcely, or not at all. bordered by pale color. Longitudinal hand 

 of femur usually represented l>\ spots. Two phalanges of fourth 

 toe l'vci\ the next usually with a very narrow web. Part or all of 

 the tibial markings broken in the middle. External vocal vehicles 

 present in male. 



Width of heath L8 mm.: length of head. I s : tip of snout to vent, 

 t;t; : vent to heel. 62; vent to tip of longest toe. 104. 



RANA CLAMITANS Latreille. 

 GREEN FROG. 



The relative numbers of this and the preceding -poeio- differ in 

 this vicinity from most localities with which I am familiar. /.'. 

 clamitans here being the more abundant. It i- found along the 

 creek- and about the pond-, as well as some distance from water. 

 The species, at time-, enter- the caves where I have found th'' frogs 

 at lea-t half a mile from daylight. 



Green frogs become active earlier in the spring than do the leop- 

 ard frogs. Eggs were found on March L9, but the laying period 

 seems to he somewhat extended, as ripe ova were found in a female 

 more than .-, month later. The eggs wen- laid in large masses 

 attached loosely to reed- and grass. The young appear to transform 

 at any time between dune and September. 



Frogs of this species are very voracious, apparently eating any- 

 thing of suitable size that moves within their range of vision. The 

 contents of three stomachs examined on April •">•> were as follow-: 

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