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and perhaps responsible for the success, measured by 

 the abundance, of flying fishes off shore over warm 

 seas everywhere, where they seem to outnumber the 

 sum of all other species. Their allies, the slender, 

 elongate needle-fishes, though lacking any wing de- 

 velopment are noted for the habit of leaping and 

 skipping over the surface of the water. One elongate 

 species with a much flattened body turns on its side 

 and skims over the surface like a skipping stone. 



J. T. Nichols, 

 New York, N. Y. 



RANA PALUSTRIS IN WISCONSIN. 



During the early fall of 1914, three specimens 

 of Rana palustris Le Conte were found in a small 

 stream entering the south side of Lake Wingra, Dane 

 County. These specimens were identified for the 

 writer by Dr. A. G. Ruthven, and a specimen was de- 

 posited in the Museum of Zoology, University of 

 Michigan. The stream in which these frogs were 

 found is the small sluggish outlet of a large swamp 

 situated about a half mile from the lake. The bottom 

 of the stream is of soft mud, without stones of any 

 sort, and at all seasons of the year is more or less ob- 

 structed by a heavy growth of water cress. Ran a 

 pipienSj Acris gryllus and Rana clamitans are very 

 commonly found here, but frequent and diligent 

 search throughout the year previous had failed to dis- 

 close any pickerel frogs. 



The distribution of this species is given by Dick- 

 erson (The Frog Book) as "over the eastern part 

 of North America, west to the Great Plains, and 

 north to Hudson Bay." Higley (Wisconsin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, VII, 169) states 

 that it is quite common in Michigan, and may possibly 

 be found in Wisconsin, and in "The Herpetology of 

 Michigan" (Mich. Geol. and Biol. Surv., Pub/ 10, 

 Biol. Ser. 3) Thompson and Thompson say that they 



