THE CROAKERS. 



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Ra/na palxistris is a frog of the same size as 

 Rana virescens virescens, but of entirely different 

 color and tune. His voice is hoarse, and his note is a 

 long, low croak, resembling, as Professor Cope says, 

 the tearing of some coarse material ; I should suggest 

 burlap, and add that the tone is anywhere 



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from F to A below middle C on the piano. 



This frog lives around cold streams and springs, 

 and is very commonly seen in the grass. In habit 

 he is not gregarious like Rana virescens 

 virescens, but on the contrary is rather 

 solitary. He is the most abun- 

 t frog in the Alleghany 

 Mountains, but is com- 



Brown Frog 

 (Rana palustrid). 



mon throughout all 

 the States east of 

 the Mississippi 

 River. In agility 

 he is only excelled 

 by the wood frog 

 (Rana sylvatica), 

 which he slightly resembles in point of color, lacking, 

 however, the dash of black behind the eye. "With 

 one long, graceful leap this athletic batrachian covers 

 the ground with the ease of a deer, and leaves his 

 pursuer far in the rear, 

 able odor. 



He has rather a disagree- 



