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HYLA. FEMORALIS, Latreille. 



I obtained several specimens of this species in Orange County. I 

 think it is the Hyhi of the pine woods. 



RANA CATESBEIANA. Shaw. 



Very abundant in south Florida in ditches, ponds, swamps, and other 

 wet i)laces. It seems to like sluggish water and muddy bottom. My 

 largest specimen was caught at Lake Eola, Orange County. It was 

 wben alive only 10 mm. smaller tlian the largest one in the U. S. 

 National Museum, recorded by Cope.* 



RANA PIPIENS, Schreber. 



This is the most common frog in south Florida and is found every- 

 where in wet phices. Some specimens come nearer to R. p. spheno- 

 cephala., others to typical R. pipiens, and it is difficult to draw any 

 definite line. It is called "Spring frog." It has a great faculty of 

 changing color between grass-green and brown. When it has turned 

 green it is very beautiful. 



RANA CLAM ATA, Dau din. 



Common near some ponds and small lakes in Orange County, but I 

 couhl not catch any as they used to jump into the water with a cry long 

 before 1 reached them. 



RANA ^SOPUS, Cope. 



Of this species I have collected one specimen at Ozona, Ilillsboro 

 County. It was caught with hook and line in a small jwnd, and was 

 called " snake frog" by the population there. I have seen it but rarely, 

 and must conclude that it is either scarce or else that its habits are 

 such as to prevent it from being observed. It agrees with Cope's 

 description in every essential, but the throat is spotted with numerous 

 elliptical or rounded sjiots of dark brown color. Two smaller specimens 

 of the same kind were caught in Orange County, at Lake Jessup and 

 Clar(;ona. 



Bull. r. S. Nat. Mu8., xxxiv, p. 426 (1889). 



