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BUFO QUERCICUS. 



Plate XXII. 



Characters. Head short; snout pointed; superciliary arches shghtly elevated; 

 body short, flat, rounded at the flanks, above dusky, with a yellowish vertebral 

 line, on each side of which are black blotches; abdomen silver-grey; throat dusky; 

 groins tinged with yellow. 



Description, The head is short, with the snout rather pointed, and the 

 nostrils near its extremity; from each nostril extends a slightly elevated ridge, 

 increasing in height to the occiput, where it terminates in a small knob. The 

 eyes are prominent and beautiful, with a black pupil and grey iris, having an inner 

 circle of bright golden; the tympanum is evident but small; the post-tympanal 

 glands are oblong and large, though but slightly elevated. 



The body is short and greatly depressed, almost flat; while the flanks are so 

 rounded and projecting as to give the animal an orbicular appearance. The 

 abdomen is flat and completely granulated. 



The anterior extremities are small, short, and terminate in four fingers, with a 

 small wart at the carpus; the posterior extremities are also short, small, and 

 delicate, with five indistinctly webbed toes, and two small warts at the meta- 

 tarsus. 



Colour. The head above is dusky, with a yellowish central longitudinal line; 

 the superciliary ridges are grey, with a white mark in the centre; on each side 



