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as it was getting quite dark by that time, I was unable to locate 

 it on the ground among the undergrowth. A little later I heard 

 it singing again, and so went back to find that it had climbed 

 up a huckleberry bush that was covered with a considerable 

 growth of Smilax glauca. The leaves of the vine made it quite 

 difficult to locate the frog, which must have been near, for when 

 I drew very close it hopped on to a lower part of the bush, and 

 though I tried to capture it with my two nets, I was unsuccessful. 

 This frog was a most persistent singer, and so in a short time 

 I went back to the same bush up which it had climbed after 

 being so rudely dislodged. After much looking and with the 

 aid of the moon, I located the frog on the flat side of a Smilax 

 leaf and brought the two nets together with the result that I 

 found the frog in one of them. 



The next evening I found one in a cedar tree in a swamp. 

 When I got around the tree through the bushes to where the 

 frog had been, I found that it had gone to the side of 'the tree 

 that I had just left. As I approached slowly it would jump from 

 tree to tree, and from limb to limb, every now and then stopping 

 to sing when it heard the calls of its rivals, two of which were 

 in the same small swamp. In this way I slowly pursued the 

 frog, being much interested in its well-founded fear and its 

 inability to keep quiet. It never climbed over six feet from the 

 ground so that I easily captured it when I desired. 



Elaphe obsoletus (Say). The pilot black snake was found 

 not uncommonly some years ago at Denmark Pond, near Green 

 Pond, northern New Jersey, by Mr. Ernest F. Neilson. 



Storeria occipito-maculata (Storer). Two examples of this 

 little snake have been found at Lakehurst. One of them had 

 fallen into the same drain that trapped the spade- foot toads, and 

 the other had been run over by a wagon on the road. 



Opheodrys cestivus (Linnaeus). A specimen of this slim little 

 green snake was found partially coiled about a branch of a small 

 oak at Lakehurst, July 13, 1902. Mr. Joutel and I made con- 

 siderable preparations to capture it, but I finally picked it off 



