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EANID.E. 



hinder side of tbigbs speckled or spotted with brown. 

 Lower parts white or pinkish, the throat and the bind 

 limbs often of a bright pink or salmon-colonr ; throat 

 and breast spotted or mottled with grey or brown, 

 with the median line of tbe throat and usually a 

 cross-line on the breast unspotted, tbe two forming 

 a X-sbaped white or pink marking ; belly and lower 

 surface of tbigbs sometimes spotted, sometimes im- 

 maculate. Iris golden, much obscured with brown, 

 at least in its lower half. 



Males distinguished by much stronger fore limbs, 

 and a large pad on the inner side of the inner digit, 

 wbich, during the breeding time, is covered with dark 

 brown borny excrescences or minute spinules, forming 

 tbree or four distinct patches. No vocal sacs. 



Measukements (in millimetres). 



Skeleton. — Fronto-parietals broad and flat, tbeir 

 widtb in tbe middle contained twice to twice and a 

 half iu tbeir length ; ethmoid rounded or obtusely 

 pointed anteriorly. Nasals small, oblique, separated 

 from each other on the median line, their posterior 

 border nearly straight, or if concave less markedly so 



