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each goes out of their hollow, leaving only 

 eggs in it. Once or twice, I have seen 

 the female alone remaining behind in the 

 hollow. As to the mode of life after 

 separation, Racopliorus Sch/egelii pursues 

 one different from that of Rana or Bufo. 

 The animals belonging to the latter genera 

 go again under ground or into the bot- 

 tom of deep water and there rest awhile, 

 while the present species, after breeding, 

 directly creeps out above ground and then 

 goes upon the leaves or twigs of trees, 

 uttering their peculiar summer call. 

 I have said above that the place selected for the deposition of eggs 

 is, so far as mij certain observations go, in wet and muddy banks of 

 paddy-fields, lakes, and the like. I used the italicized clause advisedly, 

 for there are indications of the animal depositing eggs in other localities. 

 When living in my native province Echigo, I often noticed a species of 

 green tree frog depositing its eggs between twigs and leaves of trees 

 standing near water or among grasses, growing near ponds, paddy-fields, 

 etc. These eggs, I remember, were always enclosed in a frothy mass 

 full of air-bubbles. My friend, Mr. M. KlKdCHl, tells ma that he once 

 saw a similar egg-mass on a shrub growing by the side of the pond in 

 oar University grounds in Tokyo. Mr. Y. Takahashi, I am told, once 

 noticed in the Hakone mountains a similar mass that was falling from a 

 tree into a water-poil below. Some others of my friends have often 

 found the same kind of frog-nests on trees in Nikko. One of the cases 

 at the last mentioned locality has been described- in an article entitled 

 " Arboreal Tadpole " by an American naturalist, Mr. \V. J. Holland 

 (American Naturalit, vol. XXIII, May 1889, p. 383), who expresses 

 evident surprise at the peculiarities of the nest. Although I have not 

 had opportunities of examining the frog in any of these cases, it seems 

 very probable that all these frothy nests belong to Racopliorus Schlegelii. 



