fingers and toes, giving a sawtooth appearance in lateral aspect. The 

 color pattern varies, but the coral pink snout is prominent in each of 

 these individuals. The legs are coral or reddish, barred with fine olive 

 bars. In one there are two prominent coral stripes along the sides of 

 back, the mid-back being brownish olive. In the others, the coral on 

 the sides appears as areas fitting into the scallops of the dorsal 

 brownish olive band. The forward end of this dorsal bar forms a 

 stripe across the head between the eyes: there is another dark stripe 

 across the snout. The edges of the upper and lower jaws are promi- 

 nently spotted with light and dark. There is a faint ridge of skin 

 down the mid-back. The skin of the back is slightly roughened. The 

 skin of belly and under side of hind legs is areolate. There is a promi- 

 nent vein down mid-belly. The under parts are light in color, grayish 

 on the underside of hind legs. 



Structure: Subgular vocal sac; tympanum 1/2 size of eye; tongue 

 elongate oval, slightly nicked; heel reaches orbit or even snout; lower 

 jaw with a median tubercle fitting into a median notch in upper jaw; 

 two metacarpal and two metatarsal tubercles. 



Voice: "Its twittering call can be heard from hammocks as well 

 as dry pine land, after showers during April, May, June, July, and 

 August." (Deckert, 1921, p. 22). 



"Their chirping notes are a common sound after dark and on 

 cloudy days." (O. C. Van Hyning, 1933, p. 4). 



Breeding: They breed from April to August. Development goes 

 on within the egg to adult form, there being no tadpole stage. The 

 newly hatched young are 3/8-1/2 inch (9-1 1.5 mm.) in size. 



Notes: "Ricord's Frog does not go to the rain-pools in numbers, 

 as do the other Salientia. Pairing seems to take place on land during 

 rainy weather, in dark places. The writer has so far failed to find 

 specimens in copula, but on May 16 two batches of eggs, containing 

 a dozen each, were found in a depression filled with dead leaves and 

 leaf-mold in a 'hammock/" (Deckert, 1921, p. 23). 



"Ricordii lays 19-25 eggs in vegetable debris in woods. . . . yolk 

 being about 2 mm. in diameter, and the outer envelope eventually 

 reaches 4 mm. No trace of external gills could be made out in either 

 species. . . . The night of July 28 a batch of 25 eggs was laid. I 

 left Soledad on July 30 and returned on August 2 and found that a 

 second batch of 19 eggs had been laid in my absence. 



"The eggs of the 28th began to hatch August 7, making a period 

 of eleven days. By August 1 1 all were out, making a period of ten 

 days from the 2nd. 



"On August 11, 1925, I found 21 eggs in a fallen Bromeliad. These 

 hatched six days after (August 16) and as soon as the yolk was fully 

 absorbed and the adult coloration assumed they were seen to be 

 ricordii." (Dunn, 1926, p. 155). 



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