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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
RANIDAE 
7. Oxyg^lossus lima, Gravenh. 
Cape Patani. 
‘ Common in the freshwater pools among the sandy Casuarina woods on 
Cape Patani ; appears to be largely an aquatic species. Local in distribution.’ 
8. Rana macrodon, D. & B. 
Bukit Besar, 2,500 feet ; and Tel6m, Perak-Pahang boundary, 4,000 feet (young specimen). 
‘ Both specimens were taken hiding under stones at the edge of jungle 
streams.’ 
9. Ranatigrina, Daud. 
Jambu, Jhering. 
‘ The specimen was taken on the mud of the brackish mangrove swamp 
at the mouth of the Jambu River. In such environment it is not uncommon, 
occupying holes exactly similar to those of the mangrove crabs. I have seen 
a specimen dive into a strongly saline pool and remain under the surface for 
some minutes. It is also abundant, judging from its characteristic croaking, in 
the swamps of the Taleh Sap at Lampam, in Patalung, these swamps being 
possibly brackish at certain seasons of the year.’ 
10. Rana limnocharis, Boie 
Jalor. 
‘ The common rice-field frog, both of the Patani and the Federated 
Malay States. In dry weather it is occasionally found in the jungle, and it is 
generally common on elephant tracks in all places where the ground is 
sufficiently soft to retain impressions wherein water may collect. Puddles 
thus formed are a favourite spawning-place, but the eggs are also frequently 
laid in ditches and pools. They form a feebly coherent, one-layered mass of 
no great size that floats on the surface of the water, which oftens becomes 
quite hot under the mid-day sun. The ova appear to have about half the 
diameter of those of R. temporaria^ and to hatch within a week. In Jalor, 
spawning takes place throughout the summer months, but most frequently in 
June or July, apparently reoccurring after every heavy fall of rain. R. limnocharis 
sits in great numbers along the edges of the embankments of flooded rice 
fields, and when a person or large animal approaches, leaps hurriedly, with a 
splash, into the water. It swims away for a yard or two, and then returns 
