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RANA. 



Genus Rana. — 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-t3Tnpanal glands; posterior extremities long, and in general 

 fully palmated; fingers four; toes five in number. 



RANA HALECINA.— ^a/m. 



Plate XIII. 



Characters. Body green above, with ovate spots of dark brown, margined 

 with yellow; yellowish-white beneath. 



Stnontmes. Rana aquatica; Water Frog, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 70. 

 Rana halecina, Kalm, Iter. Amer., torn. iii. p. 46. 

 Shad Frog, Bariram, Travels In Carolina, Florida, &c., p. 278. 

 Rana pipiens, Gmelin, Ed. Syst. Nat, torn. iii. p. 1052. 

 Rana pipiens, Bonnaterre, Erpetologie, p. 5, tab. 4, fig. 3. 



Rana halecina, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 63 — Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 122. 

 Rana pipiens, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 165. 

 Rana pipiens, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amph., p. 175. 

 Rana utricularia, Harlan, Silliman's Journal, vol. x. p. 60. 

 Rana halecina, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. v. p. 337. 



Rana palustris, Guerin, Iconographie du Regne Animale — Reptiles, pi. 26; non Ltconte. 

 Shad Frog, Vulgo. 

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