TOADS AT THE POND IN MAY 
Four Fowler’s toads (in the Toad Group at the American Museum), one swimming, a second 
just coming up from deep water, and two singing with throat resonating sacs expanded. Fowler’s 
toads resort to the pond about the first of May (in southern New England, some two weeks earlier in 
New York). The small black eggs enclosed in gelatinous strings are to be seen in the lower part of 
the photograph 
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