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Show 90 DE. EMIL A. GOELDI ON THE BEEEDING-HABITS [Feb. 5, wonderful jumper, and it will utter a loud and shrill, most startling cry, somewhat similar to that of a wounded cat. With the assistance of m y cousin, Andreas Goeldi, a good observer and keen collector, I undertook, during numerous nights in all seasons, a thorough investigation of the batrachian life at Colonia Alpiua, Theresopolis. As nothing is known of the habits of this most familiar and striking Tree-Frog1, I think it will be interesting to describe some of the more essential features of its breeding-habits, as w e had occasion to study them in 1893, and again in the beginning of 1894. The appended figure, from a photograph taken from a portion of the pond in the middle of our large kitchen-garden, in February of last year, will help to complete m y efforts to give a clear idea of the architectural skill of our frog. The nests are numbered in the figure. Fig. 1. Portion ot a pond showing nurseries of Hi/la faber. Hylafaber makes, in the shallow water of the borders of ponds and similar localities, very regular pools of a circular form, 1 In 1886 Mr. Boulenger published, as a supplement to an article "On the Oviposition in Phyllomedusa iheringii'' (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5 xvii p. 463), a very useful synoptic table, containing the facts known at that time respecting the mode in which tailless Batrachians deposit or protect their offspring. Hylafaber is not mentioned. |