Voice: It is a loud resonant trill. 



Breeding: They breed from middle March to July. The tadpoles 

 transform at 5/8 inch (16 mm.). 



Notes: Cope's original description {Hyla femoralis chrysoscelis) is 

 as follows: "Hyla femoralis Daudin. A specimen larger than the 

 largest individuals I have previously seen; differs also in the greater 

 extent of the palmation of the fingers, and in the coloration of the 

 concealed surface of the femur. In eastern specimens the posterior 

 face of the femur is brown, with rather small yellow spots; in this 

 form it is yellow with a blackish coarse reticulation, which only ex- 

 tends to the lower surface of the proximal half of the thigh. The sides 

 have a double row of small black spots, which enclose a yellow band. 

 This is probably a subspecies and may be distinguished by the name 

 of chrysoscelis. One specimen as large as a large Hyla versicolor was 

 taken by Mr. Boll near Dallas." (E. D. Cope, 1880, p. 29). 



March 24, 1925. Beeville, Texas. The air is resounding with 

 Pseudacris. We heard a few scattering Hyla versicolor along the road- 

 side ditches or in the distance and captured three males, but later lost 

 one. They are along these roadside ditches but not in them. They look 

 quite green at night. We captured one on the bole of a mesquite near 

 the pond. Meadow frogs are croaking loudly in these ditches and 

 narrow-mouthed toads are common. 



June 14, 1930. Beeville, Texas. At night. We were about to leave 

 the pond when we heard a H. versicolor. We started for it when we 

 heard two more at a distance. One we caught. It has spotting on the 

 rear of the femur, very fine spots down the outer half of the femur. 

 When we reached the house we lost the H. versicolor. 



June 22, 1930. We went out with R. D. Quillen. At Mud Creek, 

 nine miles north of San Antonio, we heard many Gastrophmyne 

 texensis, Rana pipiens, a few Bufo valliceps and several Hyla versicolor 

 chrysoscelis. We sought the tree toads. The first one was too high in the 

 oaks. The next one we picked up on mud near the water. Then we 

 heard a croaker near the spot but the one on the mud proved a ripe 

 female. In another oak tree we found a male, three feet up. This we 

 put with the female. When we returned to the house they were mated 

 axillary fashion. 



June 26, 1930. Waco, Texas. I saw some of Strecker's H. v. 

 chrysoscelis. He pronounced my San Antonio live Hyla versicolor ', 

 H. v. chrysoscelis. These are smooth and quite greenish. In three 

 H. v. chrysoscelis in the Baylor collection the suborbital spot is ob- 

 scure or absent or present on one side and absent on the other. The 

 femoral reticulation is more pronounced than in my H. v. chrysoscelis 

 from San Antonio. 



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