20 PALMER : 



long ago, and found menlion in the scientific name, zrrsicolor. 

 My notes say of our specimen : "I kept it four days. The 

 color changed several times from a brownish to a gray, with 

 tinge of green, and back again. At night the color was gen- 

 erally brown. The change was sometimes effected in less than 

 a minute. A broad, brownish band on back, which showed 

 when the general color was between the two extremes, and 

 became invisible at other times." 



The toes of this frog are provided with suckers, which 

 enable him to do his tree climbing. Everybody must be fam- 

 iliar with his cheerful song. This song is popularly supposed 

 to indicate an approaching storm. It probably indicates 

 nothing beyond the fact that the frog is feeling reasonably 

 contented, or even gay. 



Pickering's Tree Frog, [Hyla pickerinoH , Holbrook). 



A most dainty little creature, one inch long at most. 

 The only specimens I have seen, which I came upon at Ches- 

 ter Heights one day in June, were of a creamy white, each 

 with a faint brown oblicjue cross upon its back. They were 

 among the roots of some damp grass, not on trees. 



The Green Tree Frog, iMyla amiersonii, Bairdj. 



Jordan says of this : " Deep pea green ; sides with irregu- 

 lar yellow spots ; a green spot on throat ; a purplish band 

 from eye to arm. '^^ ^^ ijA inches. N. J. to S. C. ; rare." 



This is a description calling for a very vivid sort of frog. 

 It is such. Two specimens were found in a damp gravel pit 

 some years ago, and they were most beautiful. They lived in 

 my study for a week or more, finally disappearing, up the 

 ventilator, as I suppose. They seemed, like the ordinary tree 

 frog, (juite at home wherever they happened to find them- 

 selves. They crawled about the desks and door frames, or 

 over one's clothes, in a manner devoid of all appearance of 

 excitement. 



