Amphibians of Eastern Ontario

Abstract

T HE amphibian fauna of the southeastern part of Ontario has received little attention. Latchford (1887), Small (1893), Odell (1900), Harrington (1903) and Patch (1918) published short articles on the salamanders and frogs of the Ottawa region. Klugh (1922) investigated the food of Rana pipiens at Kingston, Ontario, and Toner and Edwards (1938) reported on the amphibians of a lake in Leeds County. A recent paper by Trapido and Clausen (1938) contains a number of amphibian records from the vicinity of Ottawa. The topography and climate of the region have been discussed by Putnam and Chapman (1938). The present paper is based in part on the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, in part on the authors' collections, and on some records from the National Museum of Canada. The senior author has been engaged in a study of the fish fauna of the region since 1933, and incidental to this work collections of amphibians were made and field notes recorded. The junior author took most of the Frontenac specimens while collecting material for a study of the red leg disease in frogs. The authors wish to extend their thanks to Mr. E. B. S. Logier, of the Royal Ontario Museum, for permission to examine the collections at that institution and for verifying identifications; to Mr. C. L. Patch, of the National Museum of Canada, for permission to publish records; and to Mr. J. R. Dymond, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, for financial assistance towards the necessary field trips. The localities in the following list have been assembled by counties.