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2. BUFO. 



Head moderate, muzzle distinct, tnmcated, eye moderate ; tliigh 

 and arms rather short ; teeth, none in jaws nor in palate. Tongue 

 eUii^tical, entire, free behind. Tympanum more or less distinct ; 

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

 chian tubes moderate. Fingers fonr, quite fr'ee ; toes five, generally 

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

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

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

 New HoUand. 



Bufo, auctornm. 



1. Bufo vulgaris. 



Rana rubeta, Gesner, Hist. Anim. ii. p. 59. 



Bufo terrestris major, ScJiwenckfcld, Theriotroj)!). Siles. p. 159. 



Rana bufo, L. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 48, and Si/.st. Nat. i. p. 354 ; Roesel, 



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



p. 8 ; Sturm, DeutschJands Fauna, iii. Heft 1 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. 



p. 138. pi. 40. 

 Bufo vulgaris, Laur. Syn. Rept. pp. 28, 125 ; Daub. Diet. Anim. p. 612 ; 



Lacep. Hist. Nat. Quadr. Orijy. i. p. 568 ; Bontiat. Eneycl. p. 16 ; 



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



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



Leet. pi. 91 ; Cuv. Rk/ne Anim. ; Guerin, Iconogr. pi. 27. f. 1 ; 



Wagl. St/st. p. 207; Eickw. Zool. S^jec. p. 67; Faun. Casp.-Caueas. 



p. 127. t. 31 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vertehr. p. 30 ; Holandre, Faune 



Depart. 3Ioselle, p. 223 ; Schinz, Faun. Helcet. p. 144; Tsehudi, Batr. 



p. 88 ; Bornqj. Fauna Ral. pi. ; Bell, Brit. Rept. p. 105. fig. ; 



Duni, 8j- Bibr. p. 670 (Synonyma complete). 

 cinereus, Sehneid. Hist. Amph. p. 185 ; Merr. Tent. p. 182 ; 



Gravenh. Delic. p. 62. 



palmarum, Cuv, Rbyne Anim. 



alpinus, Schinz, I. c. 



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

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

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

 beneath whitLsh, sometimes black-spotted. 



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

 without horny suiface, flat, numerous. 



a. Adult : skeleton. England. 



h. Adult female. England. Mus. Leach. 



0. Adxrlt. 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. 



«7, h. Adult. 8ine patria. 



i. Adult: stufl^ed. Athens. Presented by C. W. Merlin. Esq. 



Tc. Adult : skeleton. Sicily. 



