HIBERNATION OF FROGS. 



" I WANT information about frogs. I and my 

 brother were digging by the side of a pond during 

 the winter I don't recollect the month and we 

 turned up about two quarts of frogs. The soil 

 was clay, and the hole they were in was nearly 

 round, and quite smooth. They were jammed in, 

 head and tails, as tight as possible : herrings in a 

 barrel were nothing compared to them. They were 

 all alive, though thin, and hopped away. I could 

 see no means of entrance or exit, and cannot 

 conceive how they contrived to make their hyber- 

 naculum, or how they got into it. C. F. W." 



[Perhaps the entrance of the hole in which 

 C. F. W. found the frogs had been stopped up by 

 him while digging, as he does not mention at what 

 depth beneath the surface they were found. Frogs 

 generally hybernate during the winter in any 

 convenient hole, or drain, in the vicinity of water, 

 where they congregate in great numbers, and pass 



