the Thoreau Log.
5 April 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  What I call the young bullfrog, about two and a half inches long,—though it has no yellow on throat. It has a bright-golden ring outside of the iris as far as I can see round it. Is this the case with the bullfrog? May it not be a young Rana fontinalis? . . .

  P.M.—I go to the meadow at the mouth of the Mill Brook to find the spawn of R. halecina . . .

(Journal, 10:355-357)

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