THE ANOURA OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 19 



more or less washing of green on the head and anterior dorsal 

 parts. 



The bellowing notes, whence it derives its name and which 

 lumbermen imitate by the words '' more rum," are seldom heard 

 by day ; but on warm nights it is very noisy and can be heard a 

 distance of three miles. During cool nights it is silent and on 

 chilly days is seldom seen, as it lies then under pond lily leaves 

 or other floating vegetation. 



■ When held up by the leg for examination, it will often scream 

 most piteously. 



The Bull-frog is rarely seen after the first frost& of early 

 autumn, and has gone into winter quarters long before the Green 

 Frog deserts its grassy haunts. But if it be the rirst to enter up- 

 on hibernation, it is also among the first to reappear whenever 

 the conditions are favorable. As a general thing, however, the 

 ice on our lakes breaks up late, so that it spends more than half 

 the year in the dormant condition. 



Distribution local. Occurs also in Nova Scotia, but was not 

 found by Roy McL. Vanwart and the writer on P. E. Island ; 

 nor by the latter on the Gaspe peninsula. 



