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the Scrapper Frog. Mr. Rider avowed that they were all around and that 

 they can change color to suit their environment. Some of them he maintains 

 have no conspicuous marks." 



Harper made the following notes on this species on his trip in August on 

 the Suwannee and St. Mary's Rivers: "At Fargo a number were heard during 

 a hard rain on the afternoon of August 5, and one was found on a potted 

 prickly pear (Opuntia) on the porch of a house. Here it was occasionally 

 giving its rather weak and leisurely diurnal note: Waaaake, waaaake, etc. It 

 has a sort of grating or scraping quality and might well be compared to the 

 scraping of a hollow reed with a fine-toothed comb. It is probably not to be 

 heard at a distance of more than 50 or 75 yards. In the evening of the same 

 day a big chorus was heard at Moniac. 



"On August 14 and 15, in late afternoon and early morning, several were 

 heard in a pine grove on the St. Mary's River (Georgia side) about five miles 

 south of Traders's Hill. On August 15 and 16 several were heard in damp 

 woods on the south side of this river near Boulogne, Fla. 



"During a thunder shower on the afternoon of August 16 a number began 

 calling at Camp Pinckney, and one was captured among the leaves of a live 

 oak about 15 feet from the ground. After dark numbers were on the ground, 

 especially in or about a temporary pool, in a road through level oak woods, 

 where their chorus was deafening. The nocturnal note is similar to the di- 

 urnal one, but stronger, louder, and more regular; in fact, it is almost a con- 

 tinuous call. I found it being given at the rate of 90-95 times per minute. 

 In the alternate inflation of throat and body, the throat sac attains about 

 half the size of the body. When sitting on the ground, croaking, this frog has 

 more or less the appearance of a large, fat Acris. Some individuals were 

 green, and others, I think, brown. 



"On the morning of August 18 several others were heard farther down the 

 river at Kings Ferry and vicinity." 



In 1922 our first introduction to this species came seven miles north of 

 Millen, Ga. "Here at 7 p. m. we heard several and took two in the small 

 trees at the edge of a swampy tangle. Also heard them in higher trees. An 

 imminent storm made them noisy. The following morning we heard a few." 



On June 19 "At Camp Pinckney hear a Hyla squirella across the St. 

 Mary's River on the Florida side. On the ground saw one hopping along. 

 We mistook it for a frog {Rana). It was brownish with spots. Leaped on to 

 some dead branches. It can leap. When the thunderstorm came several 

 Hyla squirella were to be heard and some H. versicolor. We captured one in 

 a tree near the sawmill." On June 23, near the old railroad pools near 

 Trader's Hill heard one or two scrapers in the afternoon. On June 26 at 

 Anna's Pond heard one calling. On June 2 7 at Camp Pinckney heard several 

 in mid-afternoon. "On a fence heard a Hyla squirella. A little later heard 

 another frog note from a fence where the H. squirella was. Were they the 

 same? Is it versatile in its calling? Later a thunderstorm threatened; heard 

 several Hyla squirella." 



