. The Batrachia of North America [microform]. Amphibians; Amphibiens. H V^' â {. 332 JUILLETIN :tl, l'MTi;i> srATKS NATIONAL MIISKKM. the lormcr, (lio otiinioid plate witlioiit siipriiorbital aiij,'I('s, the elongate terminal plialaiij^ with siiiall basal ^-lolu', supporting; ininnte dila- tations, and IIh^ nearly wehless di;;its distinj;uish it. Species of less i'ei)i'eseMtalive ai«'similar in (cranial stiiictnre, and have a dimin- ished amount of palmation, but the series appears with onr present knowledfi*'! distinct in the strnelnre of the leet. Like the Ijitoiias, its lite i
. The Batrachia of North America [microform]. Amphibians; Amphibiens. H V^' â {. 332 JUILLETIN :tl, l'MTi;i> srATKS NATIONAL MIISKKM. the lormcr, (lio otiinioid plate witlioiit siipriiorbital aiij,'I('s, the elongate terminal plialaiij^ with siiiall basal ^-lolu', supporting; ininnte dila- tations, and IIh^ nearly wehless di;;its distinj;uish it. Species of less i'ei)i'eseMtalive ai«'similar in (cranial stiiictnre, and have a dimin- ished amount of palmation, but the series appears with onr present knowledfi*'! distinct in the strnelnre of the leet. Like the Ijitoiias, its lite is passed on the ground, and ehiclly in tiie neighborhood of small pools in open and barren situations, whi're the voiei^s of the species may be heard with the Acris in the summer, lon^' alter the Ilylas have souj^ht their leafy retreats in the W(M»d or fence low. Tliev dill'cr fictm the first-mentioned ficnns in belli;;- pooi' swimmers; thonyh they hap into the water when alarmed, they do not swim far from the shore, and soon return to it. They do not scei;i to be possessed of the power of making such i'liormous leaps as the liitorias of Australia, or even as our Acris. In typical Kitoria the Inaiii cast* is more elongate ami cylindrical and the frontoparietal foutanelh> much narrower, but in /y. (niieriniiifi the form and prop')rtiuiis are the same. The general form and habits of the Australian ;;eniis (!rinia are not very ditlerent from the present; the. terminal, not inferior, attachment of the ultimate phalanx will separate it from all llylida'. Chorophilns is distiibiited from the I'io (Iraiide, Sail liake N'alley, and llocky Mountains on the west, to the Aflanti*!, and IV(hii the (Inlf to the northern limits of the Unit<'d States west of tlu^ Alleijhaiiics; east of this ran^e I am not awai(^ of its occnnin^- lun'th of middle Pennsylvania. Of its six species four are coiiiincd to the (Julf States and South Carolina, while the fifth is found under several forms
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