as the appearance hatched from the egg, it sets to work in building its habita- black spots, which lie in the shallows of a river or the ordi- of a lump of whitish clay. The insects attacked by it be- tion; and even before it begins to- feed, this industrious nary ditches that intersect the fields.… … the head two little projections appear through the skin, ‘as follows: which soon develop into legs, which, however, are not atall While in the Adirondack region, numerous clumps of alders were noticed that had their leaves nearly all skele- employed for progression, as the tadpole wriggles its way…
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