Voice: This frog gives a cricket-like chirp, but with a whistle. It 

 is not a continued call, but often consists of only one or two notes 

 which can be heard a few yards away. 



June, 1930. Brownsville. The note may be one tick or two or three 

 ticks, well measured, or two may be rapid and close together. Some 

 times after these, comes a cricket-like call. 



Breeding: They breed from April to May. The eggs are few, 6-12, 

 and very large, the egg yolks about 1/8 inch (3-3.5 mm.). Larval 

 development is probably within the egg. The smallest frogs we have 

 seen in collections range 1/5-5/16 inch (5-8.5 mm.). 



Notes: April 27, 1925. Brownsville, Texas. Mr. Camp took me to 

 the type locality. It was in a small back yard of a private residence 

 in the center of the city. In the rear of the house was a laundry room 

 the floor of which was close to the ground. Against the rear of the 

 house were two small piles of brick, each of which was no more than 

 2-3 feet across and 1 1/2-2 feet high. The ground was moderately 

 moist there. Mr. Camp said, "Move these bricks and you will find 

 them, but grab quickly." I was not quick enough for the first one. 

 The associates of these frogs are sow-bugs, ants, snails and spiders. 

 Something jumped into a hole, all I got was the impression of the 

 jump. ... I saw 12. or 15, but all I captured were four adults. Only 

 a keen collector would have discovered this new species. 



April 28, 1925. We visited the board-pile habitat. Under boards 

 and bricks near the edge we found several. . . . Under one board a 

 foot square, we found four at edge of the pile. It certainly seems as if 

 they come out to the edge of board-pile at dusk or in the evening. 



June 17, 1930. About 9 p. m. after darkness came on, I walked 

 about Brownsville and heard in many yards S. campi. They are a 

 dooryard, or frontporch or garden friend, cheerful as a cricket. When 

 we mounted a large plate of Camp's frog, we put in the type localities 

 for fear the species might temporarily be lost. No danger. I heard 

 them along the Rio Grande in the grassy localities, and also along 

 railroad right of way. One must know how to collect them. 



June 19, 1930. Mr. Rebb's palm grove. Arrived at 7 p. m. and 

 found the Palm grove flooded. In the grove there are plenty of S. 

 campi near its unflooded edges. Others sound as if in deeply flooded 

 parts. Are they temporarily on boles of trees, on large fans or in a 

 litter of palm leaves at the surface? Surely this species is not scarce. 

 It is common. 



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