inch. (Males, 11.5-15.5 mm. Females, 12-17. 5 mm.). 



General appearance: These are the brownies of frogdom in the 

 United States. They may be uniform gray, brown, greenish or reddish 

 on the back with a dark vitta from the eye backward as a stripe of 

 variable length. This is set off by a light area below the eye extending 

 backward to the shoulder. There may be a dark triangle between the 

 eyes with a stripe extending down the mid-back and a stripe on either 

 side of this. These little frogs are so tiny, so delicate, that it does not 

 seem possible that they are adult frogs. Their form is slender, their 

 legs long, their eyes bright and bead-like, their snouts very pointed 

 and extending beyond the lower jaw. The nostrils are on the sides of 

 the pointed snout. These little midgets can turn their heads or tip 

 them upward or sideways without turning the body. 



Structure: Midgets in size; snout pointed and projecting beyond 

 the lower jaw; nostrils on sides of snout; slender in form, hind legs 

 very long; eyes bright and bead-like; disks on fingers and toes small 

 but distinct; skin of back covered with very fine warts. 



Voice: The call is a high, shrill, cricket-like chirp or trill. 



Breeding: They breed from January to September. The brown 

 and cream eggs are single, laid on bottom of ponds and in vegetation 

 in shallow water ,and about 100 in number. The egg is 1/40-1/30 

 inch (0.6-0.8 mm.), the single envelope 1/20-1/12 inch (1.2-2 

 mm.). The greenish tadpole is small, 15/16 inch (23 mm.), its tail 

 long and its tooth ridges 2/3. After a tadpole period of 45 to 70 days, 

 they transform, June 30 to August 18, at 5/16-3/8 inch (7-9 mm.). 



Notes: May 20, 1921. Okefinokee Swamp, Ga. We went down to 

 the pond east of the negro quarters and it sounded as if bedlam had 

 broken loose. I heard a cricket-like note everywhere. . . . One frog 

 was on a grassy mat, one on a log, another calling from pine brush at 

 the edge of the water, another on the bole of a tree. ... Its throat 

 pouch was transparent and we could see through it and discern the 

 bark behind. . . . The croaks were 30-65 per minute. . . . It is surely 

 a loud piercing call for so little a mite of frog flesh. It is an amusing 

 little creature as it squeezes its slender body and throws out its large 

 sac one half the size of the body. 



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