eye and beyond the tympanum. There is a light speck back of the 

 tympanum. The legs are barred with black spots. There is no tri- 

 angle or cross bar between the eyes. The male has a dark greenish 

 yellow throat with longitudinal folds in the middle. 



Structure: Slight webs at bases of second, third, and fourth toes; 

 slight disks at tips of fingers and toes; hind legs long; in many ways 

 this is the most distinctive of all five subspecies of P. nigrita. 



Voice: Its call is a shrill metallic trill, ic, ic> ic, ic, ic. 



Breeding: Within the last two or three years, several naturalists in 

 the south have made notes on the breeding of this early species. At 

 Biloxi, Mr. M. J. Allen found it on Dec. 15, 1929, and also on Jan. 20, 

 1 93 1. On Feb. 7 and Feb. 15, 1932, Mr. O. C. Van Hyning records it 

 at Gainesville, Fla. On Jan. 20, 1933, Mr. H. A. Carter of Decatur, 

 Ga., writes that he is following the breeding habits of P. n. nigrita. And 

 on Feb. 4, 1933, at Gainesville, Florida, Messrs. A. F. Carr and H. K. 

 Wallace found this species breeding at the same time as P. ocularis 

 and P. ornata. The eggs they sent us are brown and cream or white, 

 the vitellus 1/25 inch (0.9-1 mm.), the single envelope 1/10-1/9 

 inch (2.6-2.8 mm.). 



Notes: July 15, 1922. Folkston, Ga. On high sandy ridge south of 

 Spanish Creek, we were looking carefully and gingerly at a much 

 serrated poison ivy plant, and saw something jump amongst it. We 

 thought it a grasshopper, but soon found it to be a frog. It was 

 Pseudacris n. nigrita. We took its picture right there. ... It would 

 leap amongst dead leaves, amongst wire grasses and amongst the ivy. 

 On February 7, 1932, O. C. Van Hyning of Gainesville, Fla., wrote us: 

 "I went out into the middle of the Prairie . . ., and caught eight 

 males and one female of P. nigrita." Feb. 15, he wrote: "I have one 

 bunch of eggs laid in the laboratory." 



Detailed color description of a female taken at Gainesville, Fla., 

 by O. C. Van Hyning, Feb. 5, 1932, follows: Top of snout, upper 

 eyelid and foreback, yellow citrine or light yellowish olive, becoming on 

 rear back and sides and the interstices of fore legs and hind legs 

 Veronese green, kildare green, or light grape green. The three dorsal 

 rows of black spots are distinct, those of the sides less regular. Vitta 

 from snout through eye to past tympanum, black. At rear of tym- 

 panum the whitish or light grape green spots begin. Light stripe on 

 jaw may be continuous or interrupted. It may be white, pale Veronese 

 green or even have the background color of the back. The whole 

 venter is very granulate, the belly being white, the sides of the belly, 

 venter of fore limbs and throat with a wash of sulphur yellow or light 

 green yellow. The front and rear of thighs, olive lake or old gold. 

 Eye black with a light green upper edge to pupil. 



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