Beaver County News | 1916-06-23 | Page 9 | Makes Music in [Illegible] Spring

Makes mvsc ,n 'axM sPrln0' " Many take its4.oTrWg V that the early frog songs ofpi. both t mg.iy ' the handsome big greeu "Tellows which are common throughout the summer. There scarcely could be a graver mistake. The common leopard frog does sing in the early spring, but Its note is a dull and throaty rumble. The real chorister of the newly thawed ponds is hyla pickeringii, a mottled brown mite scarcely an inch in length. The marvel is that 60 tiny a singer cart make so much noise. Pickering's hyla is the most timid" of -lrogs,-.and- --only --only the very persistent searchers can get a glimpse of it. On tho remote approach ap-proach of a human observer the tiny singer becomes silent and slips to the invisible depths of its chosen pool. It is extremely canny and wary. It really Is not worth seeing, anyway. But it is well worth hearing.