Water loving amphibians quite at home in Canoe Country Represented in the BWCA by three species of Treefrogs (family Hylidæ), the Grey Tree Frog (Hyla chrysoscelis/versicolor), Boreal Chorus Frog, (Pseudacris triseriata), and Northern Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer); and four species of True Frogs (Ranidæ), the Mink (Rana septentrionalis), Green (Rana clamitans), Northern Leopard (Rana pipiens), and Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) Omakaki in the Ojibwe, with various kinds of frog known as jashagawashkogissi (a green frog), passekanak, and pikonekwe (a small frog)
Frenchmen, properly Parisians So called from their ancient heraldic device, which was three frogs or three toads "Qu'en disent les grenouilles? " - What will the frogs (people of Paris) say? - was in 1791 a common court phrase at Versailles There was a point in the pleasantry when Paris was a quagmire, called Lutetia (mud-land) because, like frogs or toads, they lived in mud, but now it is quite an anomaly (See Crapaud ) Frogs The Lycian shepherds were changed into frogs for mocking Latona (Ovid: Metamorphoses, vi 4 ) "As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs Railed at Latona's twin-born progeny " Milton: Sonnet, vii It may be all fun to you, but it is death to the frogs The allusion is to the fable of a boy stoning frogs for his amusement