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{b) ‘Teeth in the upper jaw. 
3 GENUS.—HYLA.* Tree Froc, or TREE TOAD. 
Legs four. 
Teeth, one row in the upper jaw. 
Body tapering, skin viscous. 
Toes before four, and behind five, all furnished 
with lenticular tubercles beneath. Toes of the hind feet 
La Rainette. Lacepede. 
DESCRIPTION AND HABITS. 
Body granulated beneath, assuming various colors, 1 
ang behind, smooth and viscous, emitting a pungent scent; 
legs long, tees not properly webbed, furnished beneath with 
around tubercle to each, by which the animals are enabled 
to adhere to the surface of even the smoothest substances, 
They appear to change their color vol vo 
4. GENUS.—RANA. FRroe. 
Body smooth. 
Legs longer than the body. 
Toes before, four, slender, cartilaginous, clawless. 
‘*.. behind, five, palmate. 
Teeth, one row im the upper jaw. 
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