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vated above the upper surface of the head. The porous 

 protuberances behind the head are also less developed. The 

 hinder legs are scarcely so long as the body ; the toes are 

 less palmated than even in the Common Toad ; — a structure 

 in accordance with its still more terrestrial habits; and the 

 rudimentary sixth toe — a tubercle which has been so con- 

 sidered, which we find in the Common Toad — is here absent. 

 The general colour is a light yellowish brown, or olivaceous, 

 clouded with a darker hue ; a yellowish line along the middle 

 of the back. The warts, or glands, on the body, and the 

 large glands behind the head of a reddish hue. The under 

 parts yellowish, with black spots ; the legs marked with black 

 bands. 



Dimensions : — 



Total length 

 Length of fore-leg 

 Length of hinder-leg 



In. Lines. 



2 8 



1 3 



2 2 



