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General habits 114 



Metachrosis 114 



Variations in color 114 



Life-history of the southern toad Bufo terrestris Bonnaterre 133 



Life-history of the cricket-frog i4ms ^ryZZws (Le Conte) 156 



Life-history of the black chorus frog. Pseudacris nigrita (Le Conte) . 196 

 Life-history of the smooth chorus frog. Pseudacris occidentalis (Baird and 



Girard 204 



Life-history of the little chorus frog. Pseudacris ocularis (Holbrook) . . 206 



Life-history of the ornate chorus frog. Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook) 227 



Life-history of the Anderson tree-frog. Hyla aridersonii Baird . . . . 227 



Life-history of the green tree-frog. Hyla cinerea (Schneider) .... 248 



Life-history of the pine wood's tree-frog. Hyla femoralis Latreille. . . 272 



Life-history of the Florida tree-frog. Hyla gratiosa Le Conte 294 



Life-history of the southern tree-frog. Hyla squirella Latreille 310 



Life-history of the common tree-toad. Hyla versicolor (Le Conte). . . 325 



Life-history of the gopher frog. Rana aeso-pus (Cope) 334 



Life-history of the green frog. Rana clamitans Latreille 352 



Life-history of the southern bull frog. Rana grylio Stejneger 364 



Life-history of the Heckscher's frog. Rana heckscheri Wright 384 



Life-history of the mink frog. Rana septentrionalis Baird 397 



Life-history of the southern leopard frog. Rana sphenocephala {Co-pe) . . . 419 



Life-history of the carpenter frog. Rana virgatipes Cope 435 



Life-history of the narrow-mouthed toad. Gastrophryne carolinensis 



(Holbrook) 452 



