14 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. 



sonii, an extremely rare frog found from New Jer- 

 sey to Georgia. As only three individuals of this 

 last species had been found up to 1889, we must pass 

 it as an unfamiliar phase of 

 swamp life, and turn our 

 attention to the very com- 

 mon Hyla versicolor. 



This is the frog fa- 

 miliarly known as the 

 tree toad, which inhabits 

 every hedgerow and tree- 

 girt marsh throughout the 

 country. Professor Verrill 

 records this species as being 

 found at Norway, Me., 

 which is considered the most easterly point of its 

 range; but at Campton, N. H., scarcely sixty-three 

 miles west of Norway, I have found this frog, if not 

 common, at least so plentiful that I have heard him 

 sing every season for the last ten years. It would 

 seem reasonable, then, to move his easterly limit still 

 farther east than Norway. Wherever there are 

 woodlands bordering a marsh or pond, there he will 

 be sure to be heard, at least in June ; and I have 

 no doubt but that his voice may be a familiar one 

 in some of the wooded swamps near Portland. 



This remarkable tree toad has a compact, squat- 



Tree Toad {Hyla vesicolor). 



