Fig. 107. HYLA ARHOREA, THE TREE FROG. 



TREE FROGS. 



CHAPTER XLV. 



"Spina viret ; venter, pars maxima corporis, albet : 

 Limosoque novse saliunt in gurgite ranae." 



OVID. 



THE Tree Frog, Hyla arborea (Fig. 107), really a toad, 

 is a noisy and obstreperous little creature, whether he 

 sits in an Agave and performs a solo, or croaks in a 

 hoarse chorus at the margin of some tank or 

 reservoir. The din is deafening if you come too 

 near ; still it is one of those natural noises to which 

 one is easily reconciled. 



The sleepless stranger may take comfort from the 

 fact that things might be worse by far. He may 

 thank his stars that the Riviera Frogs, though they 

 sing out lustily, are not so stentorian as the Brazilian 



