sS'heres scattered rc;-ularl;^ thro a -h the ieilv 
Ir this i?ay the dseredations 
fisaes -s forestalled, and by the tinie the hatching has takSTk 
lace^the tne j^ouni; tadpoles have beer wcsA«d into the big pool by a heavy 
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ilia 
ia.ii:. j txiGy o.rG ciDl6 to swin/iii soiu© d8£TG6 6scs.pB or hi d-G 'Tpoiii thGir nuiiiGrous 
destroyers. :/e saw 6 or 7 similar nests in this little pool barely 50 feet 
across* -Iv^idently some of theru had been made when the water was hiyher a few 
ctajs bOxore , lor these were a little v/ay out of water on shore, and the eggs, 
though developing, were rrerelv mois' 
fe took a few of these e.-ys to be 
.hatched out later in the laboratory. On the last nest, we saw the feinale 
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iO£. sittii..a,j clutciiiri£ the brim with her lon£ dished toes and. finnerSy ard 
nt tiiG ligritf i/e felt tha.t such maternal solicitude shou3.d be 
rewarded by continued freedom, and so we did not ^'coll^ ct' her . One more 
species, — ^the big green ’^bullfrog^^ Leptodactylus ocQllQ-tus. ended our collecting 
for the nignt in triat lovely tropical garden scented bv t 
aa. lain 
^'1 month later I v;as collecting in the State of liinas Garaes, where the 
Insuituto Oswaldo Cruz has a branch at Bello Eorizonte* while there w 
colls* cted ot Lagoa Secca, a marvelous dry lake in a valley of iron soil* 
'Ihe road on the journey to it changes from yellow ochre mud to dri^, powdery, 
burnt sienna iron dust, while the vegetation like?/ise changes comipletely frora 
I ich screen grass uo shruboy, dry-loviiig, leathery-leaved plants and bushe 
s. 
we parked our automobile a green lizard ( ..o^jeiva ) dashed ac^'oss the road, 
and we dug him out from his refuge under the roots of a purple-flovTering 
crepe myrtle* le walked down a slope through little anastomosing cowpaths 
that 7/ere mos tli^ iron dust but sometimes contained a solid lump of iron ore, 
ana finally/ Came to a broad^flat field in v/hich little tv/inklp patches of shallow 
vvater 
illy reflected the sun. The place was alive with tiry frogs (Paludicola 
skittering about in every direction with all the animation of 
grasshoppers. I went after them, but at first I got only one in everv t¥/entv 
