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not fix it as the name of the species. In fact the name 

 for the species, as appears from the literature so far as it 

 has come to hand, is Ranapipiens Schreb. Gmelin, 1788, 

 Donndoif, 1793 and 1798, and Schneider, 1799, all use 

 this name. The first, in his synonymy gives "Kalm it. 

 3.J9. 45. 46. Rana halecina, & Rana virescens" as if copied 

 from Schreber. Daudin, 1802, resurrected the name R. 

 halecina (Hist. Nat. Eain., p. 41; Kept, viii, 122) and 

 has been followed by the majority of writers on the sub- 

 ject since that time. Daudin reverses the order of Kalm's 

 names and pages in such a way, in his references, as to 

 suggest that he did not get them from the original, but 

 took them second-hand, in all probability from Gmelin. 

 Apparently Schreber was influenced in his choice of a 

 name by Kalm's account of the cries ; and thus we have, 

 as a consequence of a mistake by the Swede as to the 

 owner of the voice, a name fixed upon the leopard frog 

 which had been much better bestowed on the little " Pip- 

 ing Frog," Hyla picker ingii Holbr; Lee. 



The bull frog is referred to at length in the Resa, Vol. 

 Ill, 110. As the translation by Murray gives what Kalm 

 wrote, the first five sentences are quoted to supply what is 

 omitted in the English : "Manteskiihe (Mantes-Kor. Der 

 Frosch heisst bey dem Ritter Linnaeus Rana boans, Syst. 

 JSTot.y T. I, p. 213. Catesby hat ilin in seiner Nat. Hist, of 

 Carol. y Vol. II, p. 72, unter dem Namen Rana maxima 

 Americana aquatica, beschrieben, und in den natiirlichen 

 Farben abgebildet) wurden von den Schweden eine Art 

 Frosche genannt. Woher sie diesen Namen entlehnet ha- 

 ben, konnten sie nicht sagen, sie glaubten aber doch, dass 

 er zuerst aus der Sprache der Wilden hergeleitet ware. 

 Die Englander nannten sie Bullfrog, das ist, Ochsenfrosch, 

 ein Name, der sich auf ihren Laut beziehet. Einige vou 

 den Schweden bedienen sich theils des Eni^landischcn Na- 



