: A by the first of September they had almost entirely 
Nore or Icrervs Bartimore.— The following is the spring 
ZOOLOGY. 
note of the n 
Hang-nest. 
a A A a a Bn EE! ET, E 
Sometimes the first part has five notes, instead of four; and the : 
part after the rest is sometimes sung without the preceding patt 
— 5. 5. HALDEMAN. g 
Nore or Rana piprens.—The voice of the bullfrog is 
vowel of un, pronounced like the French nasal un, and repeate 
groups of three notes; the last one col 
Bull-frog. ~ verted into a kind of dipthong, 35 if f 
=F the closing of the organs over the issuing 
sound. Not having heard the sound for 
for which allowance must 
Blud-an-owna! 
many years, I write from recollection, 
be made. Popularly, this frog is supposed to say, 
— S. S. HALDEMAN. i 
prue AT NIES, 
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CoLorapo PoraTo BE š 
for 1811; 
Micuican.—In the May number of the NATURALIST 
gave a brief account of the Colorado Potato Beetle, as it 4 
observed on the farm of James Hudson during the ah a 
years. As these beetles have apparently disappeared ae 
region I have taken pains to learn something of the time of 
disappearance. It appears that during the spring 
beetles were even more plentiful than during the preceding pe 
and that they attacked the potatoes as soon as they ci 
destroyed whole fields, and went on increasing with genre 
About the middle of July, however, they began to 
number, and by the middle of August, only a few "e re 
-But the manner or cause of their disappearance e 
stood. The fields of late potatoes were mostly sa a 
fields were saved by putting on ‘‘ Paris green ” mixed fe 
to twenty parts of flour. lt was sprinkled over the plan 
the dew was on.—Sanzorn Tenney, Williams College 
(234) : 
