white stripe from the eye to the arm. The skin is more or less tubercular. 

 Structure: Tympanum indistinct; tympanic fold present; fold 

 across breast frequently present; disc small; hind leg very long; tibia 

 very long. 



Voice: The call is a rattle, or like some metal clickers, gick> gick, 

 gick, or kick, kick y kick, in rapid succession. 



Frequently one finds the males with inflated vocal sacs even when 

 not calling. When calling, the throat is never fully deflated. After a 

 call it may be swollen to three quarters its full capacity. Then when 

 the call is given, the body sides are compressed and the vocal sac is 

 extended to its limit. 



Breeding: They breed from February to October. The single eggs 

 are few, 250, are brownish and white and are attached to stems of 

 grass in shallow water or are strewn on the bottom. The egg, 1/25 

 inch (0.9-1.0 mm.) has a single envelope 1/10-1/8 inch (2.4-3.6 

 mm.). The dark olive tadpole is medium 1 11/16 inches (42 mm.), full 

 and deep bodied, its tail long with acuminate tip and with a black 

 flagellum. The tooth ridges are 2/2. After a tadpole period of 50 to 90 

 days or longer, they transform from April to October at 2/5-3/5 i nc h 

 (9-15 mm.). 



Notes: June 15 1917 at Dinwiddie, Va., we found this species 

 breeding. They had chosen a shallow grassy meadow pool, 1-4 inches 

 deep. The eggs were attached singly to sedge stems or were strewn 

 singly on the bottom. In one or two cases, three or four eggs were 

 close together. Many of the eggs were in water not more than an inch 

 deep. The eggs are firm. We found no more than 10 eggs. 



April 23, 1 921. Okefinokee Swamp, Ga. Sometimes these frogs are 

 black on black soil, some brown — on brown pine needles, sometimes 

 green all over except for dark marks, sometimes gray over drier sand, 

 or reddish brown, even on the back of fore limbs and hind limbs. 



April 25, 1 921. Acris males jump 3 feet at a time on the water's 

 surface. 



May 17. They leaped into bushes 1/2-1 foot high. 



