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and next in size, and first shorter. At each articulation of 
phalanges on lower surface a tubercle, also at tip of each toe. 
Inner cuneate tubercle at base of first toe small. Vent superior. 
Color in alcohol dusky or blackish-brown above. Lower sur- 
face of body dull creamy-whitish or brownish. Lower surface 
of head and breast soiled brownish. Lower surfaces of limbs 
soiled dusky, like breast, and upper surfaces like back. Iris 
slaty. Length 6% inches. Shoal branch of the Wading River 
at Speedwell, Burlington County. April 30th, 1904. Witmer 
Stone and H. W. Fowler. 
About Trenton, Dr. Abbott says it is the most common frog 
in the tide-water meadows. It is called “belly-bumper’ some- 
times, on account of the noise or splash it makes when jumping 
into the water and uttering its characteristic cry of alarm. It 
_is not affected by low temperature as much as our other species. 
In the Indian summer many have been heard uttering their 
rattling or vibrating cries, and occasionally as late as the middle 
of November. ‘The only other species noted at such times is 
the Hyla pickeringit. Dr. Abbott did not note variation in color 
to any great extent in this species, but of the multitudes of 
examples which I have examined I find it to be most variable. 
It is in fact the one frog which may most easily be confused with 
Rana virgatipes, or the sphagnum frog. It may be distinguished 
from that species perhaps most readily by the color-pattern of 
the lower surface of the hind-legs. It frequents to some extent 
the same localities, though in habits differs, as it may frequently 
be seen entirely out of the water, on shore, or on the banks. 
Messrs. P. Lorrilliere and C. J. Hunt found a number of ex- 
amples in a branch of the Batsto River, between Goose Pond 
and White Horse, in Burlington County, May 31st, 1905. 
The note, evidently of this species, was heard near the forks 
of Cedar Swamp Creek, in Cape May County, during April of 
1906. Also several were seen in the same locality. Mr. T. D. 
Keim has found them along the Pensauken Creek and near 
Moorestown. Many examples from Swartzwood Lake in Octo- 
ber of 1895 (S. N. Rhoads), West Branch of the Wading 
River at Speedwell on June 3d 1905 (Paul Lorrilliere), May’s 
Landing in the spring of 1892 (S. N. Rhoads), White Pond 
