3 So March 1749. 



noife in fpring, at the fame time when the peo- 

 ple here go catching what are called herrings , 

 which however differ greatly from the true Euro- 

 pean herrings. Thefe frogs have a peculiar note, 

 which is not like that of our European frogs, but 

 rather correfponds with the chirping of fome 

 large birds, and can nearly be expreffed by picet. 

 With this noife they continued throughout a great 

 part of fpring, beginning their noife foon after 

 fun-fetting, and finishing it juft before fun-rif- 

 ing. The found was {harp, but yet fo loud that 

 it could be heard at a great diftance. When 

 they expected rain they cried much worfe than 

 commonly, and began in the middle of the day, 

 or when it grew cloudy, and the rain came 

 ufually fix hours after. As it fnowed on the 

 1 6th of the next month, and blew very violently 

 all day, there was not the leaft fign of them at 

 night y and during the whole time that it was 

 cold, and whilft the fnow lay on the fields, the 

 froft had fo filenced them, that we could not 

 hear one : but as foon as the mild weather re- 

 turned, they began their noife again. They were 

 very timorous, and it was difficult to catch them; 

 for as foon as a perfon approached the place where 

 they lived, they are quite filent, and none of them 

 appeared. It feems that they hide themfelves 

 entirely under water, except the tip of the fnout, 

 when they cry. For when I ftepped to the pond 

 where they were in, I could not obferve a fmgle 

 one hopping into the water. I could not fee any 

 of them before I had emptied a whole pool, 

 where they lodged in. Their colour is a dirty 

 green, variegated with fpots of brown, When 



they 



