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ture is yellowish white, much deeper in tone under 

 the chin. In different locahties the frog is differ- 

 ently marked, and it is therefore impossible to define 

 any standard of color whereby the species may be 

 identified. The head is as broad as it is long, and 

 the hind feet are widely wehbed. A characteristic 

 mark of this species is the fold in the skin, which 

 begins behind the eye, curves over the dark round 

 spot which is really the ear, and descends to a point 

 below the lower jaw, losing itself in the yellow skin 

 under the arm on the breast. This is the only fold 

 of skin on the frog, and it is inconspicuous beyond 

 the ear ; but a sharp eye may easily detect its course 

 beyond that point. 



Every one knows the bullfrog's note ; and that 

 his hoarse voice in the distance, so nearly resembling 

 the roar of a bull, should have occasioned his name, 

 goes without saying. Still, as I have remarked be- 

 fore, there is a musical tone to nearly every sound in 

 Nature's world, and our bullfrog is not an exception 

 to the rule. He is the double bass of the midsum- 

 mer orchestra, and no stretch of the imaginatiou is 

 required to hear his tuneful scrapings on a moonlight 

 night ranging through the following chords : 



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Rumjucdrum: j^fo rum: morerum-o'rum moreTumoram. 



