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(4) There is befides this a lefs green frog, which 
is very common about houfes : their notes are re- 
markably like that of young chickens : thefe raife 
their chorus immediately preceding a fhower of rain 3 
with which they ieern delighted, 
(5) A little grey fpeckled frog is in prodigious 
numbers in and about the ponds and favannas on 
high land, particularly in Pine forefts : their lan- 
guage or noife is alfo uttered in chorus, by larg£ 
communities or feparate bands ; each particular 
note refembles the noife made by finking two peb- 
bles together under the furface of the water, which 
when thoufands near you utter their notes at the 
fame time, and is wafted to your ears by a fudden 
flow of wind, is very furprifing, and does not ill 
refemble the rufhing noife made by a vail quantity 
of gravel and pebbles together, at once precipitated 
from a great height. 
(6) There is yet an extreme diminutive fpecies 
of frogs, which inhabits the grafTy verges of ponds 
in favannas : thefe are called favanna crickets, are 
of a dark affa or dulky colour, and have a very 
picked nofe. At the times of very great rains, in 
the autumn, when the favannas are in a manner 
inundated, they are to be feen in incredible multi- 
tudes clambering up the tall grals, weed, &c. round 
the verges of the favannas, bordering on the higher 
ground ; and by an inattentive ; perfon might be ta- 
ken for fpiders or other infects. Their note is very 
feeble, not unlike the chattering of young birds or 
crickets. 
(7) The (had frog, fo called in Pennfylvania from 
their appearing and croaking in the fpring feafon, 
at the time the people hTn for mad : this is a 
beautiful 
