1915. ] Miscellanea, aS IAI 
the same, a sort of a whir was audible as it flew slantingly.. It 
alighted on the ground a good distance from the tree it darted from. 
It is a pity I failed to measure the distance travelled by the animal. 
It may, I think, be somewhere between thirty to forty yards, My 
attendant happening to be close to where the creature alighted ran 
and caught it by throwing his cloth over it. When I went to see 
what it was, I found to my intense surprise and delight that it 
was not a bird, but a gaily coloured flying tree-frog. 
Its upper side was coloured a beautiful grass-green, the webs 
bright red, and its underside a bright yellow. It possessed weil- 
developed adhesive discs at the ends of its fingers and. toes with 
which it could attach itself to any surface easily: It could with 
ease attach itself to the wet slippery sides of the glass bottle in 
which I carried it home. It was crouching in the bottle in such 
a way that it looked a lump of dull green. When among the green 
leaves, it could, I think, escape detection most efficiently. The 
brilliancy of its colour was to be seen only during its flight and 
might serve for purposes of recognition by others of its kind. I 
already mentioned that a kind of whir was audible during its 
flight. This whir and the sudden flash of colour as it darted from 
the tree brings to my mind certain grasshoppers with criptic 
colouring which make a sort of sound as they leap and take short- 
flights and at the same time display their brilliantly coloured 
nether garments of inner wings—a sort of warning to the effect 
that ‘‘ danger is near; follow my lead.”’ 
I filled the bottle three-fourths with water, but the frog did 
not much tolerate the water. It climbed as high as it could up the 
sides of the bottle and avoided the water. Evidently it did not 
live in water. Its home and even nesting place probably were 
always the tree-tops, like those of some of its relatives. 
Colouration. 
Upper portion of the body, bright grass-green (dull steel-blue 
in spirit), obscurely dark dotted all over. Finely tuberculated, 
almost smooth, except at the sides of the upper jaw which are a 
bit coarser in granulation. 
Underside golden yellow ; granular a little from the arm pits 
downwards. Underside of the thighs interspersed with bigger 
granules. Two streaks of dull yellow at the sides speckled all 
over with dark brown spots and tinged with red. Upper portion 
of the arms, the legs, and the last digits of the limbs coloured 
green like the upper portion of the body. The underside of the 
legs yellow. The upper arms are coloured yellow, but bear a red 
streak on the side towards the-body. ‘The undersides of the thighs 
are coloured yellow and bear a reddish blotch which increases in 
redness towards the knee joint, the redness continuing lightly on 
the inner unexposed side of the leg towards the calf which is 
mainly yellow in colour. Web between Ist and 2nd finger, yel- 
low ; between 2nd and 3rd finger, yellow towards the distal end 
only, but the rest bright red; between 3rd and 4th finger, red 
