THE GREEN FROG 343 



many snakes and other reptiles, and several fur-bearing 

 creatures which come to the water in search of food. 



During the winter, green frogs, like some other frogs, 

 hibernate in the mud at the bottom of pools. With return- 

 ing spring they congregate to lay their eggs, and the males 

 may then be heard calling to the females in an unmusical 

 "chung," "chung," which is not as familiar a sound, per- 

 haps, as the bass voice of the bullfrog or the high-pitched, 

 insistent note of the spring "peepers." After providing for 

 the reproduction of the species, the green frog spends the 

 rest of the summer in its rather solitary life on the bank of 

 some stream or spring hole. 



