100 THE BATRACHIA OF KALM'S 



Rana, surinamensis Seba, 1734, Thesaurus, 

 I, 141, pi. 71, f. 3; Linn., 1749, Amoen. 

 Acad., I, 285. 

 Rana, surinamensis, marmorata Seba, 1734, 

 Thes., I, 141, pi. 71, f. 4 and 5. 



By referring to Seba it will be seen that R. hoans L. 

 contains two species. Both, however, belong to the tree- 

 frogs, Hylse, and furnish no excuse for the inclusion of the 

 bull-frog by Kalm and Forster. 



To complete the list of notices, a mention of the frogs is 

 found on page 143 of Vol. iii of the "Resa :" " The black 

 snakes kill the smaller species of frogs, and eat them," 2nd. 

 Engl, ed., ii, p. 60 (Germ., iii, 180 ; Dutch, ii, 34) ; and 

 another occurs in the same volume on page 422 : " The 

 Bull-frogs live in the pools of this neighborhood" [Bay St. 

 Paul, below Quebec], 2nd Engl, ed., ii, 341 (Germ., 

 Ill, 512; Dutch, ii, 163). The dates of the republica- 

 tions of the "Travels," from Forster, in the Pinkerton and 

 other collections of voyages are so recent as to render ref- 

 erences to them unnecessary in this study. 



The foregoing, so far as I have been able to determine, 

 comprise all the notes upon batrachians in Kalm's "Trav- 

 els." Bringing them together in this way, it seems to me, 

 affords the best means of dispelling the confusion in litera- 

 ture regarding them, whether the remarks themselves are 

 considered of sufficient value to warrant reproduction. 

 Finally, the only species noticed by Kalm that can be iden- 

 tified with any degree of confidence are the bullfrog, i?an« 

 Catesheiana Shaw, and the leopard frog, Rana pi})iens 

 Schreber. 



