706 AMPHIBIA—HYLID&. 
* Patches of vomerine teetb not elevated; tongue truncate or entire behind ; reddish 
to blackish brown, with dark rhomboidal spots and lines, sometimes showing a cruci- 
form arrangement. . . ‘ : : . : . . 4 PICKKRINGII. 
* Patches of vomerines slightly elevated ; tongue BE arotiiats behind ; color varying from 
green to brown, with irregular spots. 7 : or ae - , H. VERSICOLOR. 
Hyba versicotor LeConte. 
Common Tree Toad. 
Hyla versicolor, LECoNTr, HARLAN, HOLBROOK, STORER, DEKay, DUMERIL and BIBRON, 
GUNTHER, VERRILL, ALLEN, COPE, JORDAN. 
Hyla verrucosa, DAUDIN. 
Dendrohyas versicolor, Tschudi. 
Hyla squirrella, STORER, ALLEN, JONES, 
Hyla richardii, BARD. 
General color above varying from green to brown, with irregular darker blotches; 
dark upon the legs, usually in the form of bars; inframaxillary region as far back as 
the gular fold, of the same color as the back; skin above rough, with numerous small 
elevations; abcomen and under part of the thighs whitish to yellow, strongly granu- 
lated ; femur longer than tibia; tarsus much shorter; toes palmate to the base of the 
distal phalanges, and these with a web-like expansion on each side; fingers distinctly 
webbed at base, the fourth opposable to the other three; hind leg two to two and a half 
times the length of the anterior; tongue very thick and fleshy, slightly notched behind ; 
inner nares more widely separated than the outer; vomerine teeth in two approximately 
transverss, slightly elevated lines between the inner nares. 
Length, 14 inches; head to axilla, 74 lines; hind limb, 24 inches; transverse diameter 
of head, 7 lines; vertical diameter of head, 44 lines; transverse diameter of body, 74 
lines. 
Habitat, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetis, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, ‘‘Great Bear Lake, California, and 
Mexico.” 
This beautiful little animal is very common in all parts of the State. 
It has ventriloquial powers, and is especially clamorousin damp weather 
and towards evening. It is found on trees and old fences, to the color of 
which it assimilates itself in a striking degree. It has an acrid secre- 
tion. In fine weather it climbs the highest trees after insects; and 
Harlan * records a case of one in winter, dug up at the root of an apple 
tree several feet under ground. Burroughsf also relates that he has 
heard them piping late in November in an apple tree, and was quite 
confident that they hybernated therein. The ground at this time was 
frozen, and on the first warm day in April he found one in a cavity of 
the trunk of the tree. It is improbable that it had come from the 
* Medical and Physicai Researches, p. 109. 
+ &cience News, November 1, 1878, p. 8. 
