. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 204 BULLETIN 160, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 1899. Rana trilobata Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 9, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 158, pi. 1, fig. 1 (Jalisco, Mexico). 1900. Rana omiltemana Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and Batrachia, p. 200, pi. 61, fig. A, Feb. (Omilteme, Guerrero, Mexico). 1922. Rana burnsi Weed, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 35, p. 108, Oct. 17 (New London, Kandiyohi County, Minn.). 1922. Rana kandiyohi Weed, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 35, p. 109, Oct. 17 (New London, Kandiyohi County, Minn.)
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 204 BULLETIN 160, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 1899. Rana trilobata Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 9, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 158, pi. 1, fig. 1 (Jalisco, Mexico). 1900. Rana omiltemana Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and Batrachia, p. 200, pi. 61, fig. A, Feb. (Omilteme, Guerrero, Mexico). 1922. Rana burnsi Weed, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 35, p. 108, Oct. 17 (New London, Kandiyohi County, Minn.). 1922. Rana kandiyohi Weed, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 35, p. 109, Oct. 17 (New London, Kandiyohi County, Minn.). Type locality.—Raccoon, Gloucester County, N. J. Range.—From Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick (St. Croix River), Ontario (Ottawa River), Keewatin (Norway House), north- em Alberta (Fort Smith on Slave River), the Kootenay district of southeastern British Col- umbia, Snake River of western Idaho and down the Columbia River as far as Fort Dalles, Oreg., northeastern California (Alturas, Modoc County), Pyramid Lake in Nevada, and the Lake Tahoe re- gion (Placer and Eldorado Counties) of eastern Cali- fornia, south to the lower Colorado River Valley in Arizona and California, Florida, the Gulf coast, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Remarks.—Boulenger " has preferred to use Rana halecina for the American leopard frogs, citing Lin- naeus^* as the authority for this name, but is careful to state that the name appears in the synonymy of Rana ocellata. In explaining the derivation of the name halecina, Boulenger remarks that the " Sillhoppetosser" of Kalm ^' has been latinized by Linnaeus. Kalm states that the Swedes in America call these frogs "sillhoppetosser," or herring hoppers, in allusion to the fact that they make their appearance early in the spring at the beginning of the herring season. Rana halecina is clearly employed by Linnaeus as a vernacular descriptive term in " Boulenger, Q. A., A monograph of the American frogs of the genus R
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