the whistle of the approaching train (which was fortunately very 
late) — when at last a blow more lucky than the rest laid one small 
Rana esculenta lifeless; and in compliance with Lord Walsingham’s 
wish it has since been deposited in the Museum at Norwich. 
While this onslaught was making, there came a man from the 
public-house hard by who, in reply to my questions told me that 
ho had lived there for the last thirteen years and that these “noisy 
gentry,” as he called the Frogs, had been tenants of the pond all 
that time. We were too much hurried to make many enquiries or 
any careful survey of the locality, but I saw that the pond was an 
artificial one — probably a clay-pit or gravel-pit — and that the over- 
flow of water from it runs down a ditch beside the before-mentioned 
road which it separated from some broken ground, and I heard Frogs 
singing along this ditch for an hundred yards or so. The day was 
warm and the sun bright — two circumstances which called forth 
their melody, for, as Mr. Southwell knows by sad experience, it is 
lost labour to look for them in chill or dull weather — he having a 
few days after my visit — namely, on 4th of June — passed some 
time on the spot without gratifying his eyes or ears. 
Mr. Berney has kindly informed me that lie has not imported 
any Edible Frogs since the year last mentioned in the foregoing 
extracts; and as I do not think any one else is likely to have done 
so, we may fairly hold the animals that live at Stow Bedon to be 
the descendants of the colonies he planted ; and thus the species 
has made good its existence in Norfolk for at least thirty-four years. 
I have lately learnt from Lord Walsingham that lie has ascertained 
that it is pretty generally diffused in the neighbourhood of Didling- 
ton, shewing that it can maintain itself against Herons ; and as 
I have not heard that any ranivorous propensities have been 
developed by the surrounding human population, we may now 
hope that it has successfully established itself and will continue to 
prosper in the county. 
P.S. — It may be proper to observe that since these facts were 
communicated to the Society, I have published in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 
for 1877 (p. Gl), a brief account of the rediscovery. 
