1 4 TO A D. Class III. 



color being a pale or yellowifh green, marked with 

 rows of black fpots from the head to the rump. 



This and, we think, the former, are eaten. 

 We have feen in the markets at Paris whole ham- 

 pers full, which the venders were preparing for 

 the table, by fkinning and cutting off the fore- 

 parts, die loins and legs only being kept. Our 

 flrong diflike to thefe reptils, prevented a clofe ex- 

 amination into the fpecies. 



Toad. 3>£w@r. Arifi. Hiji. an. lib. Bufo rubetaruai. Klein quad. 



ix. c. I. 40. 122. 



Bufo Virg. Georg. I. 184. Rana Bufo. R. corpore 



Rubeta. Plin. lib. VIII. c, ventricofo, verrucofo lurido 



31. fufcoque. Lin. fyfi. 354. 



Rubeta. fc. Phrynum. Gefner Parida, TaiTa. Faun. J'uec. 



pifc. 807. Rondel, 222. No. 275. 



Bufo five Rtibeta. Rati fyn. Gronov. Zooph. No. 64. 



quad. 252. 



'"JpHE mod deformed and hideous of all ani- 

 •*> mals; the body broad, the back flat, and 

 covered with a pimply dufky hide \ the belly large, 

 fwagging, and fwelling out; the legs fhort, and 

 its pace labored and crawling : its retreat gloomy 

 and filthy : in fhort, its general appearance is fuch 

 as to ftrike one with difguft and horror \ yet we 

 have been told by thofe who have refolution to view 

 it with attention, that its eyes are fine : to this it 



feems 



