Noise From A Toad

It is a matter of common observation ïhat the loudest sounds are not always made by the largest animáis. The roar of the lion exceeds in sonorousness the cry of the elephant. Any one who had only heard without seeing a bnllfrog might well suppose that its fearful voice breaMng the silence of the night must certainly jonie from the throat of an animal of formidable dimensions. Bnt perhaps the most remarkable case of vocal power in an animal is that related by a recent traveler in the highlands of Borneo. He was informed by natives that they had heard a tiger roaring in the neighborhood. Such news is always startling to a stranger in the jungles of the east and hardly less so to the natives. An investigation was accordingly set on foot, which resulted in the discovery that the alarming roars had been emitted by a toad! This toad of Borneo, however, was by no means an ordinary member of the family. It measured no less than 14L inches around the body. That the natives should not have recognized the true source of the sounc shows that the existence of such toads was either unknown to them, or that, al any rate, they had never discovered the remarkable vocal capabilities of the mals. -