ORDER IV 



BATRACHIA. 



Rana. Lin. 



Generic characters. Body covered with a smooth skin ; 

 upper jav) furnished with a row of tninute teeth ; another in- 

 terrupted row in the middle of the palate ; no post-tympanal 

 glands ; posterior extremities long, and in general fully pal- 

 Tnated ; fingers four ; toes Jive in 7iumber. 



R. pipiens. Lin. The Bullfrog. 



Shaw's Gen. Zoology, vol. iii. pt. 1. p, 106, et fig. 

 Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 101. 

 N. A. Herpetol. vol. iii. p. 81, et fig. 



This is by far our largest species of frog ; it inhabits ponds, 

 ditches, and pools of stagnant water, but is not common in 

 this portion of the State. 



A specimen lying before me twelve inches in length, serves 

 for my description. Greatest width nearly three inches. 

 Color above, a light green, with sparse dusky spots upon the 

 back ; head green. Sides of the body, brownish ; beneath, 

 white ; throat yellow. Legs, more or less barred with dull 

 transverse bars. Fore legs, including toes, three inches in 

 length ; above, of a dull greenish brown color, with indistinct 

 brownish transverse bands ; beneath, white ; four toed, that 

 next the outer, the largest, each with three small tubercles at 

 the joints of the phalanges. Posterior extremities, seven and 

 a half inches long, of a similar color with the anterior extremi- 

 ties ; the upper anterior half of the thighs barred with brown 

 bands ; the upper posterior portion, greenish brown, with an in- 



