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ARGUS IROG. 



extraordinary iDaccuracy, he has confounded two 

 ^videly different species together, in which he ap- 

 pears to have been followed by the Count de Ce- 

 pede. In the Gmehnian edition of the Systema 

 Natura3 the trivial name oi ocdlata is retained. 



ARGUS FROG. 



Rana Ocellata. il. pedibus pcniaclacfj/lis Jissis, digitis snhtus tU" 

 bercttlatis, dorsofasciato, luteribus ocel/atis. 



Frog with pentadactyle unwebbed feet, toes tuberculated be- 

 neath, back fasciated, and sides ocellated. 



Rana Ocellata. R. auribm ocellatis, pedibus muticis ? Lin. Sifsf. 

 Nat. p. 356. Mus. Ad. Fr. 2, p. 39. 



Rana maxima Virginiana, &c. Seb. 1. p. lig. t. 7 5. Jig. 1. 



Rana pentadactyla. .R. pedibus omnibus fasciatis pentadactylis^ 

 coypove vemdoso; maculis dorsalibus transversis, lateraJibus Qcel- 

 latis. Liji. Syst. Nat.Gmel. p. 1052. 



The present large and highly elegant species, 

 which was first figured in the work of Seba, ap- 

 pears clearly, from the description given in the 

 Musceum Adolphi Fridericty to be the real Rana 

 occellata of Linnseus ; though, from the extreme 

 brevity of the specific character in the Systema 

 Naturce, accompanied by an erroneous reference 

 to a figure in Catesby, most readers have sup- 

 posed the Bull Frog of that author to have been 

 the animal intended. 



The Argus Frog is a native of several parts of 

 North America, being found in Pensylvania, Ca- 

 rolina, &c. &c. residing, like most others, in moist 

 situations, and in the neighbourhood of springs 



