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E.L. Kaldstuen
1954
Dyla regilla (2)
April 8 church behind Old Village. A large
granite boulder provided a study site for
these forms. Egg clusters were present here, too.
8:00 P.M. Air temp. 70°C.; water 10° C.
soil 6 inches down 10° C. The adult males
sat half immersed in water usually on a
matted grass surface. Spacing irregular but
most males were generally at least a foot from
each other. He reaction to the light from
my headlamp was consistently that they would
look downward into the water and swim
forward and downward to the grass or algae
at the bottom. I collected many by simply
grabbing a handful of bottom vegetation below
where I had spotted the frog. The chorus
from this pond was deafening - so loud that
it was painful to my ears when I was
near the pool. At this site all the adults taken
seemed to show a similar color phase. Dark
brownish ground-color with dorsal blotches nearly
black. At Stoneman meadow I detected one of
a gray-green ground color with the darker bluish
blotches dorsally. Pond C at Stoneman meadow,
about 25 feet long, contained about 125 frogs.
I roughly counted this many on basis of
eye shine. The ponds near Daniel Bridge were
checked. The most froggy area had no Dyla. Does
water requirements of Bufo and Dyla basically the same?