side halfway to the groin. There are three dark stripes down the back, 

 continuous, or more or less broken up, and dark spots on the legs. 

 There is a prominent light cream or silvery line along the upper jaw. 

 They are light cream or white beneath. Their skin is finely granular. 



Structure: Vocal pouch round and subgular. 



Voice: The call is a vibrating chirp. 



Breeding: They breed from March 20 to May 20. The egg mass 

 is a loose irregular cluster, the mass small, less than 1 inch in diameter, 

 20-100 eggs in the mass, 500-800 eggs in the complement. The brown 

 or black and white egg is 1/25-1/20 inch (0.9-1.2 mm.), the single 

 envelope 1/5—5/16 inch (5-7.8 mm.). The tadpole is small, 15/16 

 inch (23 mm.), deep bodied with a long tipped tail, quite black with 

 bronze on the belly and sides, and the tooth ridges 2/2. After a tad- 

 pole period of 40 to 90 days, they transform in June at 5/ 16-7/ 16 

 inch (7.5-1 1 mm.). 



Notes: Color description of a female from Mrs. H. T. Gaige of 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sayal brown, tawny olive or wood brown back 

 and upper part of fore and hind legs and tip of head. Stripes and 

 spots bone brown or black or chestnut brown. These marks are: a 

 triangle at the eyes extending backward a ways as a median stripe 

 which may be interrupted and resumed and subdivided on rear back 

 into two parallel lines; another band along dorso-lateral region from 

 above shoulder to groin; and a stripe from snout through nostril, 

 eye and tympanum halfway to groin. Tympanum, snuff brown or 

 mikado brown. Stripe on upper jaw warm buff, cream buff with upper 

 part light pinkish cinnamon below dark stripe through nostril and 

 eye. Dark edge below this light stripe. This dark edge on labial 

 border. Under parts as in P. n.feriarum from Carlisle, Pa., are cream 

 color becoming slightly massicot yellow or naphthalene yellow on 

 throat. 



Iris same color as stripe along head with clottings of mars orange 

 or burnt sienna. Over pupil rim is light yellow green. 



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