River Frog 7 1 



refer to the same site. The air base (now Laurinburg-Maxton Airport) actually 

 lies in Scotland County ca. 2 air miles WNW of the NC 71 bridge. 



On 7 August 1958, C. E. DePoe collected a single juvenile R. 

 heckscheri (NCSM 7004) at Rhodes Pond, a large cypress lake located 1.5 air 

 miles NE of Godwin in Cumberland County (DePoe and Funderburg 1959). A 

 specimen in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 22433) is report- 

 ed as having been collected at Southern Pines in Moore County, with no further 

 data. 



DePoe and Funderburg (1959) reported several additional specimens 

 found among frogs brought to Carolina Biological Supply Company by com- 

 mercial collectors, believed to have been collected "either in the Cape Fear or 

 Pee Dee river drainages in southern North Carolina." Only one of these has been 

 confirmed as R. heckscheri, a specimen (NCSM 7005) collected ca. mid June 

 1958 from an undetermined locality. 



The remaining records from the state have come from a series of bor- 

 row pit ponds along the Lumber River near the SR 1433 bridge at the Scotland- 

 Robeson County line, 5 air miles S of Wagram; and from along the Lumber River 

 between that site and the NC 7 1 bridge. Voucher specimens from that locality in 

 the collections of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences are as 

 follows: 



7 Feb. 1965: Series of 17 larvae seined from borrow pit pond by W. M. Palmer 

 and J. R.Paul (NCSM 3741). 



16 April 1967: Five of six adults taken from borrow pit pond by J. R. Bailey et 

 al. (NCSM 32080-32084, formerly DU A6819). Bailey (personal field notes) 

 noted "no significant difference in habit or habitat . . . from bullfrogs taken there 

 at same time." 



23 May 1968: Series of nine adults collected by floating the Lumber River from 

 8-12 pm "from first half to 2/3 of distance" between the SR 1433 and NC 71 

 bridges by J. R. Bailey et al. (NCSM 9790 and 32085-32092, formerly DU 

 A9349). Bailey (personal notes) noted that 40 bullfrogs were also taken along 

 the same stretch, but that only bullfrogs were taken upstream from the SR 1433 

 bridge. 



6 Feb. 197 1 : Series of larvae seined from borrow pit pond by W. M. Palmer and 

 D. L. Stephan [NCSM 10058 (5 larvae) and NCSM 26534 (10 larvae)]. 

 21 Oct. 1973: Series of 30 larvae collected from borrow pit pond by A. L. 

 Braswell and D. L. Stephan (NCSM 12895). 



12 July 1975: Adult female taken beside borrow pit pond by A. L. Braswell, 

 D.L. Stephan, and J. H. Reynolds (NCSM 15659). This is the last known spec- 

 imen from the state. Its photograph appears in Martof et al. (1980) and in a pop- 

 ular article by Dopyera (1995). 



