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The Frog Book 



Plate X 



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Fig. 31.— Toads go to the ponds in early May. The male sits more erect in the water. His throat is dark-colored when 

 not distended in singing. 



May 1st.—" The spreading leaves of the skunk cabbage and the unrolling fronds o» the cinnamon fern." 



