FIRE FROG. 



granulated; the granulations forming mottlings 

 on the sides of the body : fore feet tetradactylous ; 

 the toes very slightly orbiculated at the tips : hind 

 feet pentadactylous and pretty strongly palmated : 

 shape of the head as in the common frog, and not 

 like that of the bicolor : ears round and dusky. 

 This species, though allied in some particulars to 

 the bicolor and cyanophlyetis, seems yet to differ 

 from both. Nothing is known relative to its his- 

 tory or native country. 



FIRE FROG. 



Rana Ignea. R. olivaceo-fusca tuberculata, subtus aurantia cceru- 



leo maculata. 

 Olive-brown Frog ; beneath orange coloured, spotted with 



blue. 

 Rana bombina. R. corpore rerrucoso, abdominc albido nigro 



maculato, plica gulari. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 355. 

 Rana abdomine fulvo. Lin. Faun. Suec. ed.'l. p. 94. 

 Bufo vulgo igneus dictus. Roes. Hist. Ran. p. 97. t. 22. 

 Rana Bombina. II. abdomine aurantio coEsiu-maculato, pvpilla 



triquetra. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1048. Blumenb. Naturg. 



p. 260. 



La Sonnante. Cepede ov.l. p. 553.pl. 37- 

 Le couleur de Feu. Jb. p. 595. 



THIS species I place in the present division of 

 the genus, rather than among the toads, on ac- 

 count of its depositing its ova in clustered heaps ; 

 not in long strings of gluten, like those animals. 

 It is the least of all the European Frogs, hardly 



