Show National Museum Gets Demon Frog Of Puerto Rico Rock dwelling frogs of ot Porto Rico I dreaded as demons by the natives who however have never seen them have been brought to the United States national m museum um in Washington Washing Washing- I ton tori by Gerritt S. S Miller Jr recently returned from a West est Indian collectIng collecting collect collect- ing trip The as the frog is called won his fearsome repute among the Porto Ricans by his resounding voice which ech echoes and reechoes from the wild mountain gullies where he lives Some Som of them say he is Js not a living creature at all only a l voice others pictured him in f fearsome terms as over ever a foot long and armed with t ter terrible r. r r- r nible t teeth th when they tried to dissuade dis suade Mr Miller from his hb quest But the Smithsonian scientist persisted persisted per per- and finally found his In b boulder lder filled fie mountain caves cave cave where the going was wa hard and somewhat somewhat some some- what dangerous He located them with the aid of a flashlight and dis dislodged dislodged dl dis- dis lodged them from their crevice habitats habitats tats tt with wih a slender twig Once he had them safely ly bottled they appeared ordinary enough frogs frog the biggest of them less les than two inches long The most distinctive feature about them was their eyes eye which he says stuck out like le mouse ears Oddly enough nough these thes frogs dislike dilke the te water and If 1 they fall tal ito into it t get out as quickly as a they ey ca can |