MARSH, PICKEEEL, OR TIGER FROG. 709 



the muzzle and the eye. Length, 3^^ inches ; head to axilla, If inches ; hind leg, 5f 

 inches; transverse diameter of head, 1 inch; vertical diameter of head, 8 lines; trans- 

 verse diameter of body, 1^ inches. 



Habitat, Nova Scotia to Lake Winnepeg, Maine, Massachusetts, New^York, Pennsyl- 

 "vania. South Carolina, Georgia, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, Color- 

 ado, Montana, Ohio and Michigan. 



Common in all parts of the State. 



The Leopard or Shad Frog is usually found in wet places in marshes 

 and upon the borders of streams, though it is said to have been found in 

 summer in fields at a distance from water. They are active animals, 

 very difiicult to capture, leaping from eight to ten^feet, emit a peeping 

 note, and lay their eggs in April. This is the analogue, and it may be 

 a variety of the European Rana esculenta, or Green Frog, which it resem- 

 bles. 



Rana paltisteis LeConte. 



Marsh, Picfcerel, or Tiger Frog. 



Bama paluatris, LeConte, Harlan, Holbrook, Dumeril and Bibron, Hallowell, 



Storer, Kirtland, DbKat, Gunthbr, Vkrrill, Allen, Cope, Jordan. 

 Bana pardalie, Harlan. 



Color above light to dark green, with four distinct rows of usually large quadrate, 

 black spots, which at times are confluent, producing the appearance of longitudinal 

 bands ; outside of these rows are other spots arranged irregularly ; upper part of legs 

 with transverse bars or blotches of black ; abdomen and under parts varying from 

 white to orange yellow ; thighs granulated posteriorly ; femur shorter than tibia ; toes 

 and fingers, usually with tubercles at the joints ; tympanum green, lighter than the 

 body, and small, from two to four millimeters in diameter; vomerine jteeth, in two, 

 nearly circular, slightly elevated patches ; inner nares moderate, more distant than the 

 outer; snout roundly pointed; nostrils somewhat nearer the muzzle than the eye; 

 vocal vesicle always wanting; cutaneous folds not prominent. Length, Si^ inches; 

 head to axilla, 11 lines; hind leg, 4 inches ; fore leg, IJ inches; transverse diameter of 

 head, J inch ; vertical diameter of head, | inch ; transverse diameter of body, f inch. 



Habitat, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Michi- 

 gan. 



The habits of this little animal are very similar to those of Rana 

 halecina, and there is considerable doubt in my mind whether it should be 

 retained as a distinct species, and not considered a variety of young Rana 

 halecina; while the typical halecina differs strikingly from the typical ^a- 

 lustris, the varieties of these closely approach, if they do not shade into 

 each other. 



The Marsh Frog is usually found in the vicinity of ponds and marshes, 

 though occasionally, in the morning, after a heavy dew, it is seen at some 

 distance from water. Its note is a prolonged, grating sound, and its odor 

 strong and offensive. 



