Frogs 4

Langspeelplaat 'Frogs 4', 'drie duetten en een koor' van Felix Hess. Deel hoestekst: 'This record contains a selection of three duets and one fun chorus. All of them recorded in the tropics at night time. In the descriptions below the frog species are denoted by their scientific latin names./SIDE A. DUETS:1. Fogg Dam 18:59) Recorded on 26/12/83 around 8 pm, at Fogg Dam, some 70 km east of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Swamp area with grass and lotus further on. The duet is produced by a couple of limnodynastes convexiusculus singing some 6 metres apart. In the background: Ranidella bilingua, Litoria bicolor and various insects./2. Ingham (7 :08) Recorded on 30/3/84 around 1 :30 am. on the road to Wallaman falls, some 25 km northwest of Ingham, Queensland, Australia. Rainy night, forest with grass and shallow pools. A couple of lymnodynastes peronii produce a clicking duet. Towards the end of this fragment one of them stops calling and the other frog goes on by himself. In the background: Ranidella (deserticola?). Bufo marinus (see track 4).Litoria inermis, insects./3. Ococingo (10:26) Recorded on 22/3/83 around 10 pm, some 60 km north of Ococingo, Chiapas, Mexico. A small stream running through a rocky creek bed, separating the tropical rain forest from a patch of cleared grass land. A half moon in the sky and a silent concert for the eyes by dozens of fireflies. In the creek a few middle-sized frogs (not identified), two of which (later three) are calling. In the background: a host of insects and occasionally a distant group of similar frogs. SIDE B. TOADS/4. Palenque (26:55) Recorded on 23/3/83 around 11 pm. at Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. 1 km from the Maya site. A ford across a shallow river flowing through grass land, some tall trees. A ground mist forms. From a long distance it can be heard, this massive chorus of large toads Bufo marinus. In the background: insects and occasionally, all but inaudible, motor traffic and cattle. In the fifth minute of this track, the toad chorus is interrupted by some birds. Toads of the same species are also heard on track 2. In Oueensland they are known as 'cane toads'. They were introduced there from America in 1935.'