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white, margined broadly posteriorly with blackish or dusky. 
Throat whitish with dull or light greenish-olive cloudings pro- 
ducing a soiled appearance. Fingers dusky below, tubercles pale, 
with pale streak inside of each. Webs of hind legs dull olive- 
gray, with longitudinal darker pencilings. 
Dr. Abbott says it was formerly more abundant about Trenton, 
and as they were in demand for restaurant purposes have prob- 
ably been greatly diminished for that reason. They inhabit 
shallow open water, ponds, pools and small lakes, among Nym- 
phea and Nuphar beds, though at times they are met with in the 
upland swamps. In size they generally reach about 8 inches, 
when squatting. Dr. Abbott noted one of about this size which 
had swallowed a water snake, Natrix sipedon, which in turn had 
tried to swallow a meadow mouse. ‘The snake was about a foot 
in length, and the mouse young. ‘The bull frog varies greatly in 
color, some being vary dark or dusky-olive, and others light or 
bright green. Many are mottled dusky. The smaller ones are 
apt to be more green, but not especially variegated. Some of 
those which were taken in the debris of springs during winter 
were semitorpid. ‘This frog was reported by Mr. G. Z. 
Tiartman to occur in the fresh-water ponds at the edge of the 
salt-marsh at Palermo, in Cape May County. Occasionally it 
will croak a short time in the fall as in the spring. It is 
found along the Rancocas Creek at various localities. The 
specific name here adopted is exactly as given originally by Shaw, 
which has been amended to catesbiana by most writers. 
Rana catesbiana Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 476.—Sher- 
wood, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1897-98, No. 10, p. 23.—Stone, 
Am. Nat., XL, 1904, p. 163. 
Rana pipiens Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., III, 1838, p. 81, PI. 
15 (ref. infers).—Holbrook, |. c., Ed. 2, IV, 1842, p. 77, Pl. 18. 
—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 804.—Abbott, Am. Nat., XXIV, 
1890, p. 188. 
