40 Storer on the 
ORDER IV. 
BATRACHIA. 
Rana. Lin. 
Generic characters. Body covered with a smooth 
skin; upper jaw furnished with a row of minute 
teeth ; another interrupted row in the middle of the 
palate; no post-tympanal glands ; posterior estrem- 
ities long, and in general fully palmated ; fingers 
four ; toes five in number. 
R. pipiens. Lin. The Bull-frog. 
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 in- 
habits ponds, ditehes, 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 trans- 
verse bars. Fore legs, including toes, three inches 
- in length; above, of a dull greenish brown color, 
