After the summer showers, the ground is seen covered with multitudes of very small frogs, of a brownishblack colour, which many of the inhabitants foolishly suppose to have descended from the clouds. Some of these I have occasionally found in the stomach of the Black-billed Cuckoo. Vol. 1, 170
—J. J. Audubon
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Fig. 42. Cucumber magnolia (Magnolia acuminata)
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