THE CROAKERS. 



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frog has a browner color, larger eyes, longer fingers, 

 and longer but less webbed feet. According to Pro- 

 fessor Cope, the variations of Rana septentrionalis 

 are greater than those of any other North American 

 species of this genus. 



The northern frog is about two inches long in 

 maturity, and is found only in the north country 

 from Garrison's Creek, near Sackett's Hai'bor (Lake 

 Ontario), IST. Y., northward to Canada, and westward 

 to Minnesota. 



Dr. J. H. Gamier, who has given a detailed ac- 

 count of the habits of this species as observed by 

 him at Lucknow, Ontario, says it pos- 

 sesses the odor of the mink, and is 

 particularly offensive on 

 being handled. It is 

 a thoroughly aquat- 

 ic species, which 

 seeks its food — 

 insects and small 

 fishes — in the 

 water only. I 

 know nothing 

 of its voice. 

 The green frog {Rana damata)— or the noisy 

 frog, as his Latin specific title would seem to sug- 

 gest (a very common batrachian, about three inches 



Green Frog (Bana clamata). 



