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B U F O . — Laurenti. 



Genus Bufo. — Characters. Head large; mouth extensive; tongue elongated, 

 elliptical, entire, generally a little larger behind, free posteriorly; jaws and palate 

 without teeth; eyes large, pupil elliptical longitudinally, dilatable; tympanum more 

 or less distinct; parotid glands more or less developed; males mostly with a sub- 

 gular vocal vesicle; four fingers, sub-round, free; five toes of same form, more or 

 less palmate, the last shorter than the penultimate; metatarsal region with two 

 tubercles below, the one at the root of great toe largest, 



BUFO LENTIGINOSUS.— SAaMJ. 



Plate I. 



Characters. Head large; snout obtuse; superciliary ridges greatly elevated 

 and terminating posteriorly in a knob; upper jaw emarginate, lower furnished 

 with a hook in front; parotid glands large, reniform, and reaching from below the 

 tympanum to near the shoulder; tympanum large; vocal vesicle internal; body 

 above warty, dusky brown, with a tinge of yellow; beneath granulated, dirty 

 yellowish-white. Length 3 inches. 



SrNONTMES. Land-frog, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 09. 

 Land-frog, Bartram, Travels in Carolina and Florida, &c., p. 279. 

 Rana lentiginosa, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. pi. 53, p. 173. 

 Bufo musicus, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 92, tab. 33, fig. 3; — Hist. Rept, torn. viii. p. 190. 

 Bufo musicus, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. vi. p. 490. 



