. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. EARLY VOICES OP SPRING. 3 insistence on the fact that spring is here, notwith- standing the patches of meadow snow and ice which still linger on the shadowy borders. The more southern pipers do not have to brave these last foot- prints of the winter king so continually, and I can not therefore consider them the earliest of all spring singers. It is a most remarkable circumstance that Picker- ing's Hyla is always heard, but is seldom seen. He has a disappointing way of submerging himself to his very eyelid
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. EARLY VOICES OP SPRING. 3 insistence on the fact that spring is here, notwith- standing the patches of meadow snow and ice which still linger on the shadowy borders. The more southern pipers do not have to brave these last foot- prints of the winter king so continually, and I can not therefore consider them the earliest of all spring singers. It is a most remarkable circumstance that Picker- ing's Hyla is always heard, but is seldom seen. He has a disappointing way of submerging himself to his very eyelids in the chilly bog. With the mercury at fifty de- grees he will pipe up at about four or five in the afternoon. If we wish to catch him in the act we must choose a warmer day, when the mercury stands at sixty spnng Peeper ,. , -, T . {Hyla pickeringil), degrees, sit patiently and immova- .. spelling Ms ; bly on the log for a good half hour, and scan the surface of the pool near the margin with an opera glass. Here we will be sure to see the bulgy eyes and the tip of the nose just appearing above the water, and if we are fortunate, we may see one of the tiny ocher-yellow creatures perched on some withered cat-tail leaf, singing his song in plain view through the glass. Such a tremendous effort he. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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