Mrst. of S. cuticilla Youngs Battus Virginicus 1875. Middlesex Co., Mass. June 10 uttering continually a shrill angry squeal that reminded me of the cry of young pig when startled. I could not find any of the chicks but upon moving off a little distance I soon heard their feeble piping as they called to one another and this presents: this same life is indistinguishable from that of the S. Carolina as heard last season. In the maple swamp I found just 1 Seth cuticella & fresh egg & on J.E. quinimus with 4 ditto. The former was in rather an exceptional situation--in the fork of a low thick bush about 3 ft. above the ground. This morning while walking up Sparks St. I heard a most disagreeable racket in Dr. Weyman's yard and going in found about 20 spadefoot toads floating about on its surface. Many of them were paired and copulating while the single males employed their time in bellowing like so many bulls of Bashan floating on the surface and at each cry distending the loose skin of the throat like the Bufo one under similar circumstances. Procuring a net at the house I caught three pairs which I put in a tank of water in my room. They remained attached to each other all that day and the following night when they separated and I found that the 2's had deposited large quantities of spawn differing in appearance not at all from that of the toads & frogs at large. The 2's were 147