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Skin smooth on the head and limbs ; sometimes 

 smooth on the back, usually covered with small flat 

 warts of unequal size ; lower parts smooth, with a few 

 granules on the pubic region. 



Coloration very variable. Ground colour olive-grey, 

 pale brown, yellow, yellowish-white, or brownish- 

 white, with dark-edged chestnut-brown, olive-brown, 

 or reddish -brown spots, which often simulate larger 

 and smaller islands with numerous indentations, or 

 may be confluent into a pair of longitudinal bands, 

 bordering a pale area of the ground colour along the 

 spine ; sometimes the spots are very small and nume- 

 rous, giving the animal a speckled appearance ; the 

 spots often form irregular bands across the hind 

 limbs; a dark streak usually extends on each side of 

 the snout to the eye, involving the nostril, and a dark, 

 continuous or interrupted band sometimes extends 

 from one eyelid to the other across the crown ; a light 

 streak of the ground colour is often present on the 

 coccygeal region. In addition to these markings there 

 are often brick-red or vermilion spots or dots, which 

 may be confined to the sides, or so profusely scattered 

 on the whole of the upper surfaces as to almost obscure 

 the ground colour. Lower parts dirty white, uniform, 

 or spotted or speckled with greyish- F 74 



brown, the soles often greyish- 

 brown ; metatarsal spur yellowish, 

 pale horn-colour, or reddish-brown. 

 Iris golden or copper-colour, some- 

 times fire-colour. 



Male distinguished from the fe- 

 male by a large, oval, smooth gland 

 on the upper surface of the bra- 

 chium. Vocal sacs and copulatory 

 excrescences are absent; during Upper view of foi-e limb 

 the breeding season, however, small of hreed ™s mal *- 

 pearl-like, uncolourecl excrescences are scattered on 

 the upper surface of the antebrachium and the 

 fingers. 



