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South Carolina, and as yet only in one locality, about four miles from Charleston, 
between the Cooper and Ashley rivers, where it abounds. 
Hasirs. Little can be said of the habits of this animal, but that it seems to 
resemble very much those of the Rana sylvatica. [have always found it on land, 
and in dry places, and frequently in corn-fields after light summer showers. It 
is very lively and active, making immense leaps when pursued, and consequently 
is taken with great difficulty. An individual thrown into water floated, struggling 
with its limbs extended, as though altogether unacquainted with the art of 
swimming. I have never heard it produce any sound. 
GeneraL Remarks. The great beauty of this little animal, the number and 
variety of its spots and bars, leads me to give it the specific name of ornata. It 
is remarkable for having its hinder feet not palmated, the toes being very nearly, 
if not altogether, destitute of a connecting web; in which respect it agrees with 
several South American species, forming the genus Cystignathus of Wagler. 
Schlegel* supposes this to be a young animal, and perhaps the young of the 
Rana sylvatica, which it cannot be, as one has the toes well palmated and the 
other has not. It is, doubtless, an adult animal, for of the many that I have seen 
in the last seven or eight years, I have never observed one of greater dimensions 
than those represented in the figure; and, besides, we have no larger frog with 
the toes not palmated except the Cystignathus nigritus. 
* Revue Zool., No. 12, 1838, p. 322. 
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