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first two fiugers. Total length from 1^ to 2 inches, tlie males 

 being generally smaller than the females. This " i'ire-bellied 

 toad," the " Unke " of the Germans, is essentially a native of 

 lakes, ponds, and other standing waters of the plains. 



It ranges through the whole of North Germany, Bohemia, 

 and Himgary into Russia, eastwards as. far as the Yol^a. The 

 latter river, the Danube, and the Weser form, roughly speaking, 

 its boundaries ; northwards it extends into Denmark and the 

 southern extremity of Sweden. 



Fig. 31. — Bombinatur iyneus. x 1. Fire-bellied Toad. Two of tlieni in 

 ■'warning" attitude. 



B. pachypus. — The under parts are yellow instead of red. The 

 male is devoid of vocal sacs, but has nuptial excrescences on 

 the untler surface of most of the toes, in addition to those 

 on the fore-arm and fingers. The " Yellow-bellied Toad " is the 

 representative of the red-l:»ellied species in Southern and Western 

 Europe, preferring, although not exclusively, the hilly and 

 mountainous districts. It ranges from France and Belgium 

 through South-Western ( rermany, continental Italy, and the whole 

 of Austria and Turkey in Europe. Where l)oth species meet, for 

 instance in the hilly districts between the Weser and the Rhine, 

 in Thuringia and in Austria, the predilection of the yellow-bellied 



