102) REPOR TP OF NEW JERSEY Site MUSE UI: 
Creek, at Centerton, in Burlington County. October 14th, 1906. 
T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
Color in life olive-brown above, tubercles of back with more 
plain brownish tints, upper surface of limbs olive-brownish, mar- 
bled with darker. A larger blackish blotch from behind eye to 
groin, bounded below by pale line of whitish. Upper lip and 
side of lower, blackish, which color extends back to shoulder. 
Upper lip with a few whitish specks. Lower lip, otherwise than 
stated, whitish. A triangular dusky-black blotch between eyes, 
with angle directed back, and its edge a trifle pale olive all 
around. Black shade from eye continued above each side of back 
to groin, then towards vent, where it joins its fellow. Groin 
olive-green tinted, this shade extending half way to costal region. 
Fach side of femur gamboge tinted, posteriorly bounded with 
dusky extending from vent. Knee dusky, with 3 blackish blotches 
on dark color of femur above. Dusky blotches on tibia above. 
Ventral or anal region blackish, spotted with white. ‘Tarsus and 
feet brownish, tubercles and toes dark red. Lower surface of hind 
legs translucent brownish-white, with dull olivaceous tints about 
femur. Lower surface of fore legs whitish, becoming trans- 
lucent brownish on ulna, fingers yellowish-brown, and _ their 
tips orange tinted. ips of toes of hind legs also orange tinted. 
Lower surface of body creamy-white. Throat whitish, marked 
with dirty yellowish. Iris brown. Length of body from tip 
of snout to end of pelvis 34 of an inch. Fresh-water pond at edge 
of the salt-marsh, in Cape May County, at Palermo. April 15th, 
1906. George Z. Hartman, T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
These little toads were found to be very abundant, though ex- 
ceedingly difficult to see, on account of their small size and close 
resemblance to the aquatic vegetation in which they live. Their 
notes were a characteristic feature of these ponds all along the 
marshes most of the time, and also in the cedar-swamps. ‘They 
appear to be somewhat shy, and sink or disappear without leaving 
any trace of their whereabouts. They also become silent if peeping 
when one approaches the pond, Dr. Abbott finds this little toad the 
earliest to speak in the spring about Trenton, though he tells me 
he has not yet heard, them in the fall. Besides their rattling call a 
