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SOME i M HER WIM\L\ 





limb, and the application of permanganate i rystals may, however, 

 help to neutralize sufficient venom to reduce a lethal dose into a 

 sublethal one, tin- wound being carefully dn ptically. In 



i ases of cobra-bite, if the breathing ceases, artificial respiration 

 should l)i- employed and continued for .is long as possible some 

 hours at least; this may give time to procure anti-venene it" this is 

 not already at hand. 



I i - 108. Cacnpus systoma. (Ori 



hibia include tl ■ ind Toads « 



rule are deposited in water, hatching ou1 into tadpoles which 

 p legs, reduce their tails, and change into young froj 

 se of the Chunam Frog (Rhacophorns maculatus), a ci 

 rog with little toe-discs by means of which it enabled to 

 cling to walls and lea\ es and even to | glass, the eg 



laid in a curious frothy mass which is suspended over water into 

 which the young tadpoles drop when they hatch out; thes 

 masses may often he seen attached to the edges of cement-lined 

 tanks at the i ommeni emenl of the rainj season. The commonest 

 pond-frog is probably Rana cyanophlyctis which is usually found 

 along the edges of all small accumulations ot water; it seems to 

 feed principally on such insects as fall into the water. The Hull- 

 frog {Rana tigrina), a very large frog with a yellowish stripe down 

 the back, is also found around ponds and often, in wet weather, in 

 grass well away from water; it is capable ol giving prodigious 

 leaps and is therefore by no means easy to catch. It is largely 

 carnivorous in habit, fee-ding on other frogs, even otl ei individuals 

 of its own - nd it is not uncommon to find one of these 



cannibals dead with another individual half his own si/c wedged 

 firmly in his throat. Several frogs are burrowers, living under- 

 ground as a rule and only coming up in wet weather ; of this 

 Rana brevictps is a common example- in some localiti 



