metallic cries incessantly. Finally one would fly to 
another tree and its two companions would immediately 
follow, when the bowing and scraping would be continued. 
This was kept up at intervals for ten or fifteen minutes 
There were two birds in the same place late this after¬ 
noon, going through precisely the same performance. It 
looked like courtship but I cannot understand how two 
males could be courting the same female without fighting 
Moreover, the third bird behaved exactly like the other 
two yesterday and the two to-day acted just alike, 
Q?he toads have nearly or quite ceased trilling 
but the Hylas peep every night as merrily and almost as 
numerously as ever. Visiting our little pond last 
evening, I was surprised to find that many Hylas were 
peeping on dry land well back in the bushes. 
The toads took to the water to-night for the 
first time and their clamor , coming from our pond, 
was almost deafening through the sultry evening and 
far into the night. (I assumed that they were in the 
water because their notes came from the pond, but on the 
next evening (May 19) I visited the place and found that 
all there on this occasion were in the bushes near the 
pond and not actually in the water).J 
