BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 55 



2. BUFO. 



Head moderate, muzzle distinct, tninciitcd, eye moderate ; thigh 

 and arms rather short ; teeth, none in jaws nor in 2)alate. Tongiie 

 elliptical, entire, free behind. Tympanimi more or less distinct ; 

 paratoids very distinct, swollen ; skin more or less warty. Eusta- 

 chian tubes moderate. Fingers fom-, quite free ; toes five, generally 

 half- webbed, sometimes entirely webbed ; a blunt (in B. anomalvs 

 sharp) tubercle at the base of the first toe. Males generally Avith a 

 single internal vocal sac. Almost every part of the globe except 

 New Holland. 



Bufo, auctorum. 



1. Bufo vulgaris. 



Rana rubeta, Gesner, Hid. Aniin. ii. p. 59. 



Bufo teiTostria major, Schiceiickfcld, Theriotroph. Silcs. p. 159. 



Kana bufo, L. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 48, and Sy-st. Nat. i. p. 354 ; Rociel, 



p. 85. t. 20, 21 ; 311111. Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 35 ; 3Iei/er, Si/n. Rept. 



p. 8; Sturm, Dt'utschlands Fauna, iii. Heft 1 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. 



p. 138. pi. 40. 

 Bufo vulgaris, Laur. Si/ti. Rcpt. pp. 28, 125 ; Daub. Diet. Anini. p. 612 ; 



Lacep. Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovij>. i. p. 568 ; Bonnat. Enrijcl. p. 16 ; 



Latr. Rept. i. p. 106 (B. roeselii, ventricosus) ; Daud. Rept. viii. 



p. 139 (B. cinereus, roeselii, spinosus, ventricosus) ; Shaiv, Zool. 



Lecf. pi. 91 ; Cuv. R'egne Anim. ; Guerin, Iconof/r. pi. 27. £ 1 ; 



War/l. S;/st. p. 207; Eichio. Zool. Spec. p. 67; Faun. Casp.-Caucas. 



p. 127. t. 31 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vertebr. p. 30 ; Holandre, Faunc 



Depart. 3Ioselle, p. 223 ; Sc/iinz, Faun. Heivet. p. 144; Tschudi, Batr. 



p. 88 ; Bonap. Fauna Ital. pi. ; Bell, Brit. Rept. p. 105. tig. ; 



Dum. S)- Bihr. p. 670 (S^Tionyma complete). 

 cinereus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 185 ; 3Ierr. Tent. p. 182 ; 



Gravenh. Delic. p. 62. 



palmaium, Cuv. Rhjne Aniin. 



alpinus, Sehinz, I. c. 



Crown flat, without bony enlargement. Paratoids oblong, eUip- 

 tical, edged below with black. Tarsus without cutaneous fold. 

 Toes half- webbed. Ohvc or brownish, sometimes black-spotted ; 

 beneath whitish, sometimes black-spotted. 



A. European variety. Glands of the back generally smooth, 

 without homy surface, flat, numerous. 



«. Adidt : skeleton. England. 



/). Adidt female. England. Mus. Leach. 



c. Adult. Devonshii-e. Mus. Leach. 



d. Adult. Isle of Arran. Mus. Leach. 



e. Adult. Isle of Arran. Mus. Leach. 



/. Adult. Paris. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



(J, h. Adult. Sine patria. 



{. Adult : stuffed. Athens. Presented by C. W. Mcrhn, Esq. 



k\ Adult : skeleton. Sicilv. 



