THE BATRACIilA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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cideuce between tliem, so that tliey cau not be regarded as indicating 

 subspecies. Tlie tympanic dislv varies greatly iu size, the males liaving 

 it larger tliau tlie eye, and the females smaller than the eye. In this 

 respect the species displays its near affinity to the B. clamaia and li. 

 cateshiana. Some specimens have a dorsolateral dermal glandular ridge, 

 and others have none, such difference being exhibited by specimens 

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

 much. In some specimens the spots are not closely placed; in others 

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



Taking all its characters together, this species occupies a position 

 intermediate between nearly all the North American species of the 

 genus, and from some such form it might be supposed that all the 

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

 tribution of the species is entirely northern. 



Dr. J. H. Gamier has given a detailed account of the habits of this 

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

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

 is an aquatic species, never seeking its foot), which consists of insects 

 and small fishes, on land. 



Eana septentrionalis Baird. 



Catalogue 



■No.oi 



number. 



spec. 



3420 



5 



3432 



15 



13605 



20 



13621 



1 



13622 



1 



5379 



■^ 



Locality. 



Grarrison's Creek, N. T 



Madrid, M". Y 



Lucknow, Ontario 



do 



do 



Selkirk Settlement. . . . 

 Fort Eipley, Minn 



"When col- 

 lected. 



1883 

 1883 

 1883 



From whom recoived. 



Prof. S. F. Baird 



da 



J. U. Garnier . .. 



do 



do... 



B. Kennicott 



Dr. J. F. Head . . 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcoholic. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



i;o. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



RANA CLAMATA Daudiu.* 



Hist. Nat., Reptil., viii(1803), 104, 4:U ; 1 b., Hist. Nat. Raiu. (.1^03), 54, 

 PL XVI, lig. 2; HarL, Sillim. Amer. Jonru. Sci., x (1825), 63; 1 b., 

 Jouni. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., V (1827) 335 ; lb., Med. & Phys. Res. 

 (1835), 101, 226; Dum. & Bibr. (Baud.), Erp. Gen., viii (1841), 373. 



liana clamilans Daudiu, in Soud. & Lat. Hist. Nat., ReptiL, ii (1802), 157; Merrem, 

 Teut. Syst. Amph. (1820), 175 ; Holbr. (Bosc.),N. Amer. Herp., 1st ed., iii (1838), 

 89, PL XVII ; lb., 2d ed., iv (1842), 85, PL xx. 



Eana fontinalis Le Conte, Anu. N. Y. Lye, i (1825), 282; Holbr., N. Amer. Herp., 1st 

 cd., m (1838), 85, PL xvi ; 1 b., 2d ed., iv (1842), 87, PL xxi ; Storer, Mass. Rept., 

 Reptil. (183'J), 236; Tbompsou, Med. Hist. Mass. (1812), 120; Do Kay, N. Y. 

 ZooL, III (1842), PL XXI, fig. 54, A. 



Banana mdanota Ralin., Annals of Nature (1820), No. 25 (Lake Cliaoiplaiii). 



Bana mdanota (Rafiii.) HarL, in Sillim. Amer. Jonrn. Sci., x (1825), 64; .Joiirn. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Pbila., v (1827), 336; 1 b., Med. & Phys. Res, (1835), 102, 228; Tliomp- 



80U, Nat. Hist. Vt, (1842), 121. 



* Plates 51, figs. 2-3 ; 75, figs. 19, 33. 



