Barnes on Bairacian Animals and doubtful Reptils. 275 
Yn the opening of the spring, frogs emerge from their bru- 
wal retreats, and make a most tumultuous noise at night, 
croaking so loud as to be heard a mile off. 
The story ofthe Windham frogs is famous in the Northern 
and Eastern states. Itis variously told in prose and verse, 
and is, in substance, as follows. A mill pond was drained 
in the night. he frogs disturbed, set up a very loud croak- 
ing, by which the inhabitants were terribly alarmed; sup- 
posing that the day of final doom and retribution had arriv- 
ed. Each, in his fright, fancied that he heard himself called 
by name, and accused of various crimes. Some confessed 
their secret sins and begged for mercy. Some promised 
restitution, and others acknowledged their accusations, and 
lamented in despair. All was tumult and terror, until the 
morning revealed the cause. The _self-convicted criminals 
became the objects of unceasing ridic 
REMARKABLE SPECIES~ 
jg enormously large in proportion to the fully developed 
animal, being eight inches long and three and a half inches 
broad, while the frog is but three inches long, and one inch 
broad. } 
Figures. Of the animal nearly perfect, 
Brewster's Encyc. 298 f. 20. 
Of the tadpole 295 f. 17. 
Seba : fee « 
Daud. Gren. 22 and 25. 4 ‘ 
This frog is called, by the inhabitants of Surinam, Jakie. 
Rana taurina, Cuvier, Rana pipiens, Daud. ‘The Ameri- 
can Bull frog is one of the largest species yet discovered. 
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In the four genera jast recited, the eggs are fecunda 
by the male, after their emission from the body of the female. 
- HYBERNATION- ; 
All the animals of the genera now enumerated, which live in 
the cold or temperate parts of the earth, appear to have saat 
lar habits of hybernation. They retire to the water, oF 
