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RANAD^E. 



EDIBLE FROG. 

 Rana esculenta. Linn. 



Specific character. Thumb with two tubercles ; vomerine teeth forming two 

 small groups ; vocal sacs in the male large and globular ; upper parts of the body 

 variously marbled ; a yellow or whitish mesial line running the whole length of 

 the back. 



Rana, esculenta, LINN. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, I. p. 376, No. 15. DAUD. Hist, des 



Kept. VIII. p. 90. CH. BONAP. Non. Faun. Ital. 



viridis, LINN. Faun. Suecise, p. 94. ROESEL, Hist. Ran. p. 53, t. xiii. 

 xvi. BIBR. Hist. Nat. Rept. VIII. p. 343. 



Green frog, SHAW, Gen. Zool. III. p. 103. t. xxxi. 



THE fact that the true Rana esculenta, so well known in 

 some parts of the Continent as an article of food, is an 

 inhabitant of this country, is now perfectly established. 



