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mal. From the locality in which the account was written, 

 New York, it is possible the frog was Hyla versicolor; 

 but it was much more likely to have been Hyla picker- 

 ingii, which in damp weather takes to the tops of bushes 

 and low trees. 



The third notice is found on page 45 of Vol. in of the 

 Swedish edition. For the purpose of correcting the Eng- 

 lish version of the paragraph by Forster, which is given 

 complete, we give the German rendering of the first sen- 

 tence, and of the last, in the account as Kalm wrote it. "Es 

 wurde hieselbstvon den Schweden eine Art Frosche Sill- 

 hoppetossor (Heringhiipfer) genannt, welche diese Jahrs- 

 zeit des Abends und in der Nacht in den Morasten, wie 

 auch grossen Pfutzen und Teichen, zu schreyenanfiengen . . 

 Sie diirften genanut werden Konnen : Rana virescens plantis 

 tetradactylis fissis, palmis pentadactylis semipalmatis, ma- 

 cula depressa fusca pone oculum," Murray's translation, 

 in, pp. 57, 58. In the original the word fusca is fusta. 

 Forster's translation of the same is as follows : "Rana oc- 

 ellata are a kind of frogs here, which the Swedes call, Sill- 

 hoppetosser, i. e. Herring-hoppers , which now began to quack 

 in the evening, and at night, in swamps, pools, and ponds. 

 The name which the Swedes give them is derived from 

 their beginning to make their noise in spring, at the same 

 time when the people here go catching what are called 

 herrings, which however differ greatly from the true Eu- 

 ropean herrings. These frogs have a peculiar note, which 

 is not like that of our European frogs, but rather cor- 

 responds with the chirping of some large birds, and can 

 nearly be expressed by picet \piit by Kalm] . With this 

 noise they continued throughout a great part of spring, 

 beginning their noise soon after sun-setting and 'finishing 

 it just before sun-rising. The sound was sharp, but yet 

 so loud that it could be heard at a great distance. When 



