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like slave-ships, with plenty of tiers ; these were moveahle and 
were covered with water-lily leaves stitched on to them, that the 
frogs might he comfortable and feel at home. These were dispersed 
about in the above-mentioned places, and many hundreds were put 
into the fens at Foulden, and in the neighbourhood.’ 
“Now, the place where we found, in 1853, what Avere doubtless 
the descendants of Mr. Berney’s importations, is nearly equidistant 
from the two districts mentioned by him in the above extracts, being 
about thirteen miles from each.” 
When I wrote the foregoing I thought it advisable for obvious 
reasons not to publish the name of the locality : but, now that this 
Society is pledged to the protection of the Fauna and Flora of the 
country, I have no scruple in imparting this information to my 
brother- members, and in stating that the pond where we found the 
frogs in 1853 is (or was — for I understand it has since been drained 
or filled up) in the parish of Bocldand All Saints, ami on the east 
side of the road upon which we were driving. The spot was visited 
by Mr. Southwell, to whom I had entrusted the knowledge of its 
precise position, in 1869, but — whether owing to bad weather or 
what other cause I am not aware — he was unsuccessful in hearing 
or seeing a single example ; and I believe that he and others have 
since made ineffectual search in the same neighbourhood, so that 
until the 30th of May last, nothing more was known of the progeny 
of Mr. Berney’s colonists. 
Great therefore was my surprise and pleasure when, in the fore- 
noon of the day just named, Lord Walsingham and I having arrived 
at the Stow Bedon station of the Thetford and Watton railway, my 
ears were a few minutes after saluted with sounds to which they 
had long been strangers. I at once knew the voice of the sweet 
singers and almost as soon perceived that the musicians were 
lodged in a little pond on the other side of the road which runs 
past the station, and hardly thirty yards from the station-door. 
To call my companion was not the work of many seconds, and he 
entered enthusiastically into the chase — for I naturally wished to 
obtain proof positive of the rediscovery — hut that unerring eye 
and obedient hand which had so often triumphed over the mightiest 
beasts, the swiftest birds, and the tiniest moths, were long baffled 
by the wily amphibians. Stroke after stroke was “ducked” by the 
intended victim — time was getting on — in fancy I already heard 
