710 AMPHIBIA—RANID&. 
RANA TEMPORARIA Linnzeus. 
Rana muta, LAURENTI. 
Rana scotica, BELL. 
Rana oxyrhinus, et platyrhinus, STEENSTRUP. 
Rana arvalis, NILSSON. 
Rana japonica, SCHLEGEL, 
Habitat, England, Scotland, Germany, and Sweden, to Japan. 
(Anurican Specimens.) 
a. var. CANTABRIGENSIS Baird. 
Yellowish-brown above, with a lateral fold, and a vertebral line from snout to anus, 
light colored; posterior of thigh and leg with a narrow light line. 
Habitat, Massachusetts to Rocky Mountains; north of the Great Lakes. 
Not yet observed in Ohio. 
b. var. syLvaticA LeConte. 
Wood Frog. 
Rana sylvatica, LECONTE, HOLBROOK, KIRTLAND, STORER, DEKay, DUMERIL and Brs- 
RON,ALLEN, VERRELL. 
Rana‘ sylvatica, et pennsylvanica, HARLAN. 
Rana{temporaria, var. sylvatica, GUNTHER, JORDAN. 
Coloriabove green to greenish-brown; no vertebral band; lateral cutaneous folds of 
about the same color as the back; a dark spot passing through the tympanum, eye and 
usually? also the nostril, margined below with white; legs above usually barred or 
blotched with dark ; abdomen cream-colored to white; gular region and under parts of 
legs: yellowish ; lower jaw often with darker markings ; thighs granulated posteriorly ; 
femur and tibia of nearly equal length, the latter somewhat longer; toes and fingers 
with tubercles under part of the joints; head small; muzzle obtusely rounded; tym- 
panum small, not exceeding three and a half millimeters in diameter ; nostrils a little nearer 
the muzzle than the eye, and nearly as widely separated as the inner nares. 
The young differs from the adult by having the colors more intense, the back is 
olivaceous brown, the spot on the temple black, and the under parts a mere pronounced 
yellow. Length, 2 inches; head to axilla, 9 lines; hind legs, 34 inches; fore limb, 14 
inches ; transverse diameter of head, 9 lines; vertical diameter of head, 4 lines; trans- 
verse diameter of body, 9 lines. 
Habitat, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, 
to Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. 
The Wood Frog is very abundant in the woods of Ohio, where it is 
found among damp fallen leaves, which it resembles so closely as to 
be overlooked. They appear in March or April, and go into winter 
quarters the last of October or forepart of November. They probably do 
not resort to ponds but hybernate in woods, and in spring lay their eggs, 
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