hylas

"I must admit it; and yet that close observer, John Burroughs, gives a charming account of these little frogs that we call 'hylas' for short.

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

We heard the shouted names when we were still a hundred strides away, loudly and formally announced above the trilling of the hylas.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

A little farther on she dug for roots in the soft mud at the edge of a swamp, now vocal with the spring call of the hylas.

Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

The pleasant night-sounds are begun; the hylas are uttering their shrill _peep_ from the meadows, mingled soon with hoarser toads, who take to the water at this season to deposit their spawn.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

It ought to have crickets and cicadas in it, to rasp away as the warm afternoons turn into evening, and tree hylas to make throaty music in the still, rich-lighted night.

The Jewel City Ben Macomber

In the damp hollows the coarse grass was turning green, and before long the swamps were noisy with the shrill voice of the hylas, while the streams once more teemed with fish.

Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

I had watched the little frogs, the hylas, and had captured them and held them till they piped sitting in my hand.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

The hylas in the trees above them were singing '_sleep, sleep, _' and away out on a sunken log in the deep water, up to his chin in the cooling bath, a bloated bullfrog was singing the praises of a '_jug o' rum. _ '

Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Out here in the open all the night sounds came to them with startling distinctness; -- the cry of the nighthawk and the chirping of a cricket, the peeping of hylas and the croaking of frogs and the wild, tremulous, mournful cry of the screech-owl.

Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

Put in April and May—the hylas croaking in the ponds—the elastic air, 5

Warble for Lilac-Time 1900