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IMr. »S, P. Fowior, of Danvors, Mass., after wlioin tliisintcrcsdiiii- toad 

 was iianu'd, iiiakos tlie Collowiuj;" .statcaient in rejianl to tlic lialtits oC 

 /». UiitiginofiusfoH'lcri, iiialctter to I'rof. F. W. Putnam, who has kindly 

 alh)\vod nic to inst c the following extra(!t from it: 



"In rofi'ard to its hahits I wouhl say 1 have never been abh' as yet to 

 discover it excei»t in warm summer evenings when the thermometer is 

 not below (K)'^, In cool evenings they arc not to be seen at all and are. 

 Iterfeetly silent. When lirst observed in the cKrli/ part of the evening 

 they may be seen making their way through the grass and over the 

 grounds adjacent to the pond, and when it is reacluHJ, which is usually 

 about dark, they commence their singular note, which the laU^ Dr. 

 Kichols thought was amatory, and which he described as a shrill mon- 

 otone, continued a secoiul or more in a high falsetto voice, thrice as 

 long and more trilling thi;!i the voice of Pickering's Hyla, I agree 

 with I)i. Nichols in regard to the croak of this toad, excepting the trill, 

 there being no trill to this reptile's note, such as we notice in the common 

 toad, frciiuently long contiinuMl, and which seems to mark this species. 

 J would here say I have heard the note of one loaf' in the grass some 

 distance from the pond. To my ear this cioak is a sharp, disagreeable, 

 uneav'thly Hcrecich. dillicult to describe, as it is uidike any sound I hav(^ 

 ever heard uttered. I have heard people who live near this pond (.Fudge 

 Putinim's) say that Ihey thought it resembled in a warm siMumer's night 

 (when they are most active and numerous) the whoop of a i)arty of 

 Indians, and that they have heard their screeching <luring the whoh^ 

 night. That their note is amatory I have at present some <loubt, as il 

 is continued through the warm season of the year. 1 first noticted these 

 toads the pi-esent season at Judg(! Putnam's pond, in tlu' evening of 

 LJUth of May, when I took several of them. 1 have not as yet been able 



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