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Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NORTH- 

 ERN FROG, RANA SEPTENTRION- 

 ALIS, BAIRD, IN MAINE 



The Northern Frog is not included in S. Hen- 

 shaw's list of the Batraehia of New England (1904), 

 but the following recent records show that it is widely 

 distributed in northern Maine: 



Dr. W. C. Kendall collected it July 10, 1903, at 

 Cross Lake Thoroughfare, Eagle Lake, Aroostook 

 Co., and presented one specimen to the Portland So- 

 ciety of Natural History and another to Bowdoin 



College. 



September 8, 1912, A. S. Pope collected one troni 

 a wood road, which passed through a sphagnum bog 

 near Grassy Pond, Piscataquis Co., not far from the 

 foot of Mt Katahdin, and saw several others in the 

 same place. The specimen is in the Lee Museum of 

 Biology at Bowdoin College. 



September 6, 1913, Dr. Manton Copeland found 

 Rana septentrionalis common along the banks of Ciss 

 Stream, which flows from Round Pond into Cauc- 

 mogomoc Lake, Piscataquis Co. He identified seven 

 specimens, and secured three for the Lee Museum 

 of Biology. They were found on the marshy banks 

 of the stream where bull frogs (Rana catesbiana) 

 were abundant. Subsequently I had the opportunity 

 to examine and photograph these frogs. They lived 

 well in captivity, eating flies freely. 



