EARLY VOICES OP SPRING. H 



striped with three brown lines, or sometimes fawn 

 color with the brown stripes broader; the yellow- 

 white beneath is distinctly granulated. 

 Professor Cope says, "It delights in 

 those small and often temporary pieces 

 of water which are inclosed in the 

 densest thickets of spiny Smilax and 

 Mubus, with scrub oaks, and sur- ^ ~ 



J J V J.1, XT- /7 I Three-striped Frog 



rounded by the water -lovmg Ceph- (chorophuus 

 alaiithus, where no shade interrupts *''"«'■"' ™J- 

 the full glow of sunlight. Here the little frogs may 

 be heard in the hottest part of the day, accompanied 

 by a few A.cris gryllus, or rarely a Hyla jpickeringii 

 .... As they scarcely swim, when surprised they 

 seek refuge in the edge of the water, with so little 

 movement that their capture is no easy matter." 



In southwestern New Jersey the swamps 

 resound with the rattling notes of these 

 frogs throughout the spring and sometimes 

 in the summer. They sing not only in 

 the evening but at midday, just as the com- 

 mon toad does. The music is extremely 

 Kindle ^°^* — rising, swelhug, and subsiding like 

 (c. triseri- ^^g waves of the seashore. I can best 



atus), 



represent the song of a single singer 

 thus : ■ ~"~i I "^1 ^^^ crepitations are not so 

 loud 



■' ^ I t as those of the Acris, nor 



