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usually more or less bright green, according to Mr. Witmer 
Stone. 
An example procured along Kinkora Creek, Burlington 
County, was muddy-brown in life. Oval blotches on back deeper 
brown. Groin bright bottle-greenish marked with dusky. Spots 
on femoral region pale greenish. Under surface whitish, soiled 
pale dusky on sides. Lips pale dusky, spotted with white. Be- 
low, limbs whitish, soiled brownish. Feet pale brownish. Tu- 
bercles whitish. ‘This is of the usual adult size. Dr. C. C. Abbott, 
T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
Rana pipiens Stone, Am. Nat., XL, 1906, p. 163. 
Rana utricularius Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 
pt. 2, 1827, p. 337.—Harlan, Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 102. 
Rana halecina Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., I, 1836, p. 89, Pl. 13 
(ref. infers ).—Holbrook, |. c., Ed. 2, 1V, 1842, p. 91, Pl. 22.— 
Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 804.—Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, 
p. 476. 
Rana virescens Cope, Am. Nat., XXV, 1891, p. Ior9. 
Rana virescens virescens Sherwood, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 
1897-98, No. 10, p. 21. 
Rana virgatipes Cope. 
PLATE 26. 
Sphagnum Frog. Carpenter Frog. 
Head, measured to posterior edge of tympanum, nearly 3 in 
body to end of trunk, not including hind limbs; depth about 3% ; 
greatest width of body 224; width of head at posterior margins 
of tympani equals its length; snout 3; eye 244; mouth 1%; 
width of mouth 1%; interorbital space, measured from eye- 
sockets, 5; fore limb 2 in head and trunk; head and trunk 1% 
in hind leg. Body rather elongately ellipsoid, profile as viewed 
above with bulge about midway in head and trunk combined. 
Form rather robust, or with more or less ellipsoid trunk, and 
rather well depressed above and below, with convex surface. 
Pelvic bones forming obtuse angle in profile before last third of. 
