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luoonli;. lit and not lamplight, but somethin quite different from an’’thing I 
had ever experienced before. I felt as if I were in a theatre v/ith the stage 
all set for a play, and that in a rimiient the hero and heroine would step 
out of the darkness and the plap wo Id begin. But nothing like that 
happened, for in a few minutes we saw Joachim’s light making a million 
diamonds shine out in the brook, and he joined us on our rock. He now led 
the y/ay down to another part of the garden, v/here three or four artificial 
pools were covered with pink and blue water-lilies wet with rain and gleamine' 
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in the light from our head-lamrs* 
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he drnniiaing chorus that I had heard on 
first entering the garden had seemed to come from these pools, hut as v/e 
approached, it ceased. 
Now the real collecting began* vVading first among the shrubs that 
bordered the biggest pool, I flashed light into the face of a green 
tree- toad ( hyla alboioarginat a ) with ye Hop/ legs and black unwinking eyes 
which was clinging to a simll orange-tree. Dazzled by the cflare, he remained 
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motionless, his little throat -pcxctly puffed up for the next note which I had 
surprised him into forgetting. He was soon safely deposited in m^^ collecting 
bag, where some of his brothers and sisters shortly follop/ed him, to serve 
as the basis ;"or good color notes and observations in the laboratory tlxe 
next aav . 
Joa^uim call-cX ne to see the nest of the oi 
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one arUiUeiiig 
sou.'G o'G ;un;d '-irst heard— ‘the giant tree- toad Kyla faber^ 
It was a 
most surprising bit of architecture, fully a foot long and 4 inches high, 
iTiade of mud heaped up and hollovped out crater- fashion, so that the rim of 
the crater caine slightly above the surface of the v/ater, v/hile the central 
depression contained an inch or two of y.^ter in which we saw a ^ reat mass 
of frogs’ eggs, with the tadpoles already shov/ing up as very l-uve black 
