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very doubtful value. Rana pipiens is a very variable 

 frog and I have found it in its various phases in 

 every locality visited by me. 



142. Rana sphenocephala Cope. Southern Leopard Frog. 



Miss Dickerson records this beautiful spotted frog 

 from Hitchcock. I have collected it at Refugio, Bur- 

 net, Glen Rose, Dripping Springs, five miles north- 

 east of Waco, and a point eight miles south of Waco, 

 on the left bank of the Brazos. With the exception 

 of the Refugio specimens, all of the specimens of this 

 frog collected by me were found in the vicinity of 

 springs. They seem very fond of lurking behind 

 clusters of ferns on moist banks, and do not seem 

 to venture any great distance from water. 



143. Rana areolata Baird and Girard. Texas Gopher 



Frog. 

 Originally described from Indianola, Matagorda 

 County, by Baird and Girard, and afterward recorded 

 from Hitchcock by Miss Dickerson. This is a species 

 of peculiar habits and likely to be overlooked even 

 in localities where it is not uncommon. In Missouri, 

 Mr. Hurter found this frog inhabiting the deserted 

 chimneys of crayfish. 



144. Rana catesbeiana Shaw. Bull Frog. 



Eastern Texas, south to Victoria and Refugio. I 

 have found it as far west as Coryell and Burnet Coun- 

 ties, and Mr. Garni has collected it in Kendall and 

 Bexar Counties. The specimen of Rana clamitans 

 Daudin, recorded from Texarkana in a footnote in 

 the Hurter-Strecker list of Arkansas reptiles and 

 amphibians (Trans. St. Louis Acad. Science, 1909, 

 Vol. 18, No. 2) proves to be not that species, but a 

 young example of catesbeiana. 



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145. Gastrophryne carolinense Holbrook. 



Narrow-mouthed Toad. 

 Eastern Texas south to Victoria. Many of the 



