BREEDING HABITS OF FROGS AND TOADS 367 



all the numerous representatives of its tribe, feeds on 

 animal instead of vegetable substances. The full-grown 

 frog, too, has peculiar ways of its own, never when at rest 

 assuming the sitting posture characteristic of all other 

 frogs and toads, and never showing the humped back of 

 other species. Evidently a thorough radical and reformer 

 among frogs. 



