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a long period afterwards. Took no end of Hyla femoralis males. Took a 

 pair in the grassy water. At Anna's Pond the Hyla femoralis were common 

 in the saw palmettoes around the edge of the open pond. Equally common 

 were Hyla squirella which frequent the same place. The call of Hyla femoralis 

 is much more rapid than that of Hyla squirella. Caught a pair of Hyla 

 femoralis at this pond." 



On July II at night "7 :3o-ii :oo p. m. we hear no end of Hyla femoralis in 

 every crossmg and cypress pond. At the second 'dreen' we found many of 

 them. They looked very queer as they skipped along the water ahead of the 

 auto hghts. They were especially centered about a clump of saw palmettoes. 

 Here Miles Pirnie found a pair and I another. Later on on one blade were 

 two more pairs and one male. In this clump were possibly 20 or 30 males 

 calling. This breeding came after a hard rain." 



The females doubtless do not enter the ponds until about ready to lay. 

 On May 19, 192 1, "the boys brought in several females on ground hopping 

 along. They must be making for the ponds. Found one on the ground on 

 hammock near Long Pond." In one pond June 5, 192 1, after a breeding 

 congress "we found two dead female Hyla femoralis.'^ Doubtless they suffer 

 as do females at a Bnfo congress. All through May, June and July of 192 1 

 the boys on Billy's Island used to find females hiding under grass during the 

 day or hopping around on the island. In 1922 on Chesser Island, June 29, 

 the Chesser girls "caught a female travelling along on the ground. It was 

 gravid yet not swollen hke some species." The next day "they found another 

 female on the ground in the chufa field where they were working. It was in 

 the shade." A week later, July 6, "Mr. Chesser hoed out another female in 

 the open field. There has been a chorus of them in the pond nearby. Probably 

 the female was resting here during the day." Five days later, July 11, 1922, 

 we noted "at 10:00 a. m. a female crossing our path in the hammock headed 

 for the pond where in the evening we recorded a great congress." Until a 

 month later, August 6, we saw females hopping along in the hammock from 

 time to time. One on last date was found moving toward a pond at 6 :oo p. m. 

 At 7 :oo p. m. the chorus at this pond began in real earnest. 



Amplexation (Normal, abnormal, cross). On May 21, 192 1, we found 

 the first pair mated in axillary fashion at about 11-11:30 p. m. They laid 

 before the following morning. Two pairs captured the night of June 4-5 laid 

 the same night and had axillary embrace. We found July 3, 192 1, two pairs 

 in overflowed sweet potato fields each normal in amplexation. So also another 

 pair in Newt Pond. "The last pair we wished to observe but a toad butted 

 themand we lost them." On July 2, 1922 between "8:30 p. m.-i 2:00 midnight 

 caught a pair between i :oo and 4:00 a. m. Same night they laid their com- 

 plement. On the night of July 3, 8:00 p. m.-i:oo a. m., July 4, secured two 

 pairs each at a different pond. Like the predecessors they embraced axillary- 

 like and each pair laid eggs the same night between i :oo-7 :oo a. m. On July 

 II, 1922 between 7 :3o-i i :oo p. m. we secured four pairs. Each was normal in 

 amplexation and laid this same night. We recorded no cross embraces in this 

 species. We have this note of males mating for May 21, 192 1. "Some of the 



