706 AMPHIBIA — HTLID^. 



* Patches of vomerine teetb not elevated ; tongue truncate or entire behind ; reddish 

 to blackish brown, with dark rhomboidal spots and lines, sometimes showing a cruci- 

 form arrangement H. PiCKBKlNGn. 



* Patches of vomerines slightly elevated ; tongue emarginate behind ; color varying from 

 green to brown, with irregular spots H. vbrsicolok. 



Hyla versicolor LeConte. 



Common Tree Toad. 



Eyla versieolor, LbContb, Harlan, Holbrook, Storkr, DkKat, Dumeril and Bibron, 



GUNTHBR, VBREILL, AIXBN, COPB, JORDAN. 



Eyla verrucosa, Daudin. 

 Dendrohyas versicolor, Tsohudi. 

 Hyla sguirrella, Storbr, Allbn, Jones, 

 Syla riehardii, Baird. 



General color above varying from green to brown, with irregular darker blotches f 

 dark upon the legs, usually in the form of bars ; inframaxillary region as far back as 

 the gular fold, of the same color as the back ; skin above rough, with numerous small 

 elevations ; abdomen and under part of the thighs whitish to yellow, strongly granu- 

 lated ; femur longer than tibia ; tarsus much shorter ; toes palmate to the base of the 

 distal phalanges, and these with a web-like expansion on each side ; fingers distinctly 

 webbed at base, the fourth opposable to the other three; hind leg two to two and a half 

 times the length of the anterior ; tongue very thick and fleshy, slightly notched behind ; 

 inner cares more widely separated than the outer ; vomerine teeth in two approximately 

 transverse, slightly elevated lines between the inner nares. 



Length, 1^ inches; head to axilla, 7^ lines; hind limb, 2J inches; transverse diameter 

 of head, 7 lines ; vertical diameter of head, 4^ lines; transverse diameter of body, 74- 

 lines. 



Habitat, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

 Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, " Great Bear Lake, California, and 

 Mexico." 



This beautiful little animal is very common in all parts of the State. 

 It has ventriloquial powers, and is especially clamorous in damp weather 

 and towards evening. It is found on trees and old fences, to the color of 

 which it assimilates itself in a striking degree. It has an acrid secre- 

 tion. In fine weather it climbs the highest trees after insects; and 

 Harlan * records a case of one in winter, dug up at the root of an apple 

 tree several feet under ground. Burroughs f also relates that he has 

 heard them piping late in November in an apple tree, and was quite 

 confident that they hybernated therein. The ground at this time was 

 frozen, and on the first warm day in April he found one in a cavity of 

 the trunk of the tree. It is improbable that it had come from the 



* Medical and Physicai Researches, p. 109. 

 + Science News, November 1, 1878, p. 8. 



