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(•iiloncc botwecMi llieiii, so that tlicy can not be lefja riled as inilicating 

 subspecies. Tlio tympanic disk varies yreatly in size, the males having 

 it larj,'er than the eye, Jinil the females smaller than the eye. Fn this 

 vt'spect the species displays its near allinity to the li. chnnata and li. 

 (•(tte.sbiana. Some specinjcns have a dorsolateral dermal j^landular ridj;e, 

 and others have none, sncli dillerence bein<;' exhibited by si)ecimen8 

 from the same locality. The spottinjf of the dorsal surfaces varies very 

 iiiiich. In some specimens the spots are not closely placed ; in otliers 

 they leave only narrow lines of the lighter ground-color between them. 



Taking all its characters together, this s[)ecies occu[)ies a position 

 intermediate between nearly all the North American species of the 

 gt'MUs, and from some such form it might be supposed that all the 

 Kauiv, of the northern hemisphere have been derived. The present dis- 

 tribution of the species is entirely northern. 



J)r. J. II. Garnier has given a detailed account of the habits of this 

 species as observed by him at Lucknow, Ontario. Jle calls it the mink 

 frog, and says that it emits the odor of the mink on being Imndled. It 

 is an aquatic si)ecies, never seeking its food, which consists of insects 

 and small fishes, on land. 



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llisl. Nal., Ifi'iilil., VIM (l-<0:!), 101, i;il ; I 1.., Hist. Nut. Kaiii. (l<0;t), 54, 

 ri. \vi, li>;. ','; Marl., Sillim. Aim-r. .Idiini. Sci., .\ (l"^','.')), (i:i; 1 1>., 

 .Jourii. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'liila., v (IfiT) :{:ir> ; 1 !>., Med. iV I'liys. Ucs. 

 (I-':!.")), 1(11, 2-H\; Diiiii. iV 15il)r. (Uaiul.), Krp. ticii., viii (1811), :}7:{. 



Ixtinn (liiiiiiliiiix Danilin, in Soiiii. A Lat. Ili.st. Nat., K'ciitil., 11 (l-^ll','), l.')7 ; Mcircin, 

 Tent. Syst. Aiiipli. (l-Jd), 17.') ; Hollir. (lii)M'.),X. Amcr. llcri)., 1st cd., m (18i8;, 

 Ml, I'l. -Wii ; 11)., 'U cd., IV (l-<4-J), S"., ri. XX. 



liana fonliiinUi Lii CdiiIc, Ann. N. Y. I-yc, i (1^-.')1, '-'"•'-; Mollir., X. .\incr. Hcrji., 1st 

 cd., Ill (1S:W), .<), I'l. XVi; 1))., -Jd cd.,lV(|.-^l'.>), S7, ri. XXi; Storcr, Mass. Kept., 

 Uciilii. (H;W), •,':■.!;; 'I'lioniiisi.n, M.'d. llisl. Mass. {[-^ii), 1J() ; Do ICay, N. Y. 

 Zoo]., Ill (1>I'J), I'l. x\i. li--. :>\, A. 



Haintiiii iiidiuioln Kalin., Ani'.al.s of Nature (1820), No. '>'< (Lake Cliainplain). 



h'a III iiirliiiiiilit (Raliii.) Hail., in Sillim. Amci-. .Imini. Sci., .x (1--J."i), (II; Jonrn. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. I'liila., v (1H,!7), liiili ; 1 1)., Med. Ar Tliys. lies. (Ik;.")), U).', O'J.-i ; Tliomp- 



Hou, Nat. Hist. Vt. (18 1-2), 121. 



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