pope: west INDIAN ANURA IN HKRMUDA. 125 



The place spoken of is located near the southeast nmr<riii of Devon- 

 shire Marsh. It is perhaps three miles from "Spanish Rock," where 

 the other eggs were found April 22nd of the same year. I am some- 

 what at a loss to explain why one group of animals should spawn in 

 April and another group only a few miles away should wait till July. 

 I do not think that the same toads were spawning twice in the sam<; 

 year, for the dates are only three months apart. 



Metcalf (: 14) has described a new species of Opalina found in the 

 rectum of some specimens of Bufo agua collected in Jamaica. Since 

 the Bermuda toad came from Demerara, it would be interesting to see 

 whether it, too, is infested b\' the same parasites. 



Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour.^ 



The "whistling frog," Eleutherodactylus johnstonei, was intro- 

 duced accidentally. I have been told that it was brought in at 

 Admiralty House, Spanish Point, about 1886, probably coming from 

 Jamaica, since palms and ferns are often brought from there to Ber- 

 muda, and that it spread slowly at first, but much more rapidly during 

 the last ten years. 



In a recent letter Dr. Crozier says: 



" The ' whistling frogs ' were here before 1880 in very small numbers. 

 In that year Lady Bedford, wife of Admiral Bedford, brought to 

 Admiralty House from Jamaica a pair which were liberated. (So 

 says Mrs. Abbott, editor of the Gazette)." 



These data appear to be correct for the most part. It is highly 

 improbable, howcAer, that the animal came from Jamaica, for it has 

 been reported only from Barbados, where it is supposed to be native, 

 and from Grenada, where the type specimens were taken. Since 

 both these islands are, like Bermuda, British posses.sions, it is not 

 unlikely that it came from one or the other of them instead of Jamaica. 



Its range in Bermuda now extends from the Causeway, on the north, 

 to Paget on the south. The animal is surely abundant enough south 

 of Castle Harbor, and this summer I heard a single one in the town of 

 St. Georges, showing that they have crossed the Causeway. Soutii- 

 ward they have reached Paget but have not spread beyond there. 



The creature itself is a tree frog with well developed adhesive discs 

 on its fingers and toes. It is not a Hyla, like om* North American 



' For description and Ggures of this sjwcies see Barbour, 1914. 



