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practically every pool. There had been an extremely 

 hard rain during the two previous days. Fowler's 

 toads, (Bufo fowled) common tree toads. [Hula 

 versicolor) and green frogs, (Rana da mi tans) 

 were also abundant. All the various kinds were in 

 full song. On the next day enormous numbers of 

 eggs of the spade foot and Fowler's toads were read- 

 ily identified in the pools. On the 7th, the eggs were 

 hatched, and on the fourteenth the young were almost 

 half grown. Fully formed spade foot toads were 

 found in Coram on September 4. 



On the afternoon of September 12, Leopard 

 Frogs, (Rana pipiens) were singing on the salt 

 marshes near the Forge Life Saving Station. 



Frank Overton, 

 Patclwgue, N. Y. 



AN ALBINO POND FROG. 



In the Reptile House at the N. Y. Zoological 

 Park there is on exhibition an albino specimen of 

 the common Pond Frog, Rana clamitans. The crea- 

 ture was caught by Henry, the young son of Chas. 

 E. Snyder, head keeper at the park, in a pond near 

 his home in Scarsdale, N. Y. 



The color is rich lemon yellow above, white be- 

 low, and on the hind limbs can be seen faint traces 

 of cross bands. The pupil and iris of the eye are 

 pink, as in albino rats and rabbits. There is, however, 

 a fine golden line bordering the pupil. 



The frog feeds well, but seems to see insects 

 which move above it, much quicker than those on a 

 level with itself. 



It is a female, about two-thirds grown, the 

 length from snout to vent being 2V2 inches. The only 

 other record of albino specimens of the order Salien- 

 tia in the United States, that the writer has know- 

 ledge of, is that of some tadpoles of the common toad, 

 Bufo americanus, reared from colorless spawn by 



