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have examined specimens from six counties in Michi- 

 gan and have records of the occurrence of the species 

 in three others. No records are given for any part 

 of the state above the southern end of Saginaw Bay. 

 Cope (Batrachia of North America, 1889) gives 

 two records for Wisconsin, one from the Root River, 

 18.53, and the other from the Upper Wisconsin River, 

 the date of which is not given. Notes on the occur- 

 rence of the species at Green Lake, Wisconsin, in 

 1906 and 1909, have been given to me by Mr. John 

 M. Lowe. The results of ecological work in the re- 

 gion of the Madison lakes will doubtless show that 

 Rana palustris although rare, has a fairly continuous 

 distribution in the state. 



Thurlow C. Nelson, 

 University of Wisconsin. 



SOME NEW RECORDS FOR GYRINO- 

 PHILUS PORPHYR1TICUS (GREEN). 



In rearranging the collection of Amphibia in the 

 Lee Museum of Biology at Bowdoin College, I came 

 across a badly shrivelled and faded specimen of this 

 species. It was easily identified by the teeth and the 

 general appearance, but the only data with it was a 

 card marked Brunswick, Me. 



There are two more recent records from Man- 

 chester, Maine. 



August 16, 1913, George E. Gilbert brought me 

 two specimens, an adult, and a larva about three 

 inches long, with external gills. 



April 12, 1915, the same collector got three 

 adults, two of them 7V± inches in length. A week 

 later I visited the place where they were found, a cold 

 spring rising in a barrel in an open field and empty- 

 ing into a stone drain. One had been found in the 

 mud under the board cover of the spring, while the 

 others were in the water. They seem to be good 



