92 RANAHALECINA. 



identical with his R. ocellata, to which it bears but a slight resemblance; both are 

 certainly ocellated, but the spots are not disposed in the same manner; the R. 

 ocellata is more than twice the size of the R. halecina, is peculiar to the West 

 Indies and South America, and has never been found in the United States. 

 Linnaeus gave a still more remarkable reference to the R. maxima Americana 

 aquatica of Catesby, which is certainly the Bull Frog, and entirely unlike the R. 

 halecina. Gmelin, in his edition of the Systema Naturae, gives the name R. pipiens 

 to this Frog, but for what reason and on what authority we know not, as he refers 

 at the same time to the original name halecina. Daudin separated this Frog, not 

 only from the R. ocellata, but from all others, and described it under the name 

 R. halecina, the original one given by Kalm. 



