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HYLJE, 



OR 



Frogs with rather slender bodies, long limbs, and the 

 tips of the toes fat, orbicular, and dilated. 



ZEBRA FROG. 



Rana Zebra. -R. rufo-jla~cesccns,fiiscofastiata $ maculafa ; cru~ 



ribusfasdis geminatis, pedibus palmatis. 

 Yellowish rufous Frog, sj otted and fasciated with brown; with 



doubled fasciae on the legs, and pa! mated feet. 

 Rana maxima. R. pedibitt omnibus palmaiis Sf cum digitis fas- 



ciat'iSy corpore tenuloso tariegato: summo dorso oblique maculato. 



Lin. Syst. Xat. Gmcl. p. 1053. Laur. Amph. p. 32. 

 Rana Virginiana exquisitksima. Seb. 1. p. 115. t. 72. f. 3. 

 Rana boans. Lin. V 



THIS appears to be by far the largest of all the 

 Hyla?, or slender-bodied Frogs, and is ; according 

 to Seba. a native of Carolina and Virginia. Its 

 colour is an elegant pale rufous brown, beauti- 

 fully marked on the back and limbs, and even 

 to the ends of the toes, with transverse chesnut- 

 coloured bands, which on the limbs are double 

 and much more numerous than on the back : 

 from the corners of the mouth run two very nar- 

 row pale lines, as in the Argus Frog, separating, 

 as it were, the region of the back from the other 

 parts ; the head and sides are irregularly marked 

 with numerous small chesnut-coloured spots and 

 veins : all the feet are webbed, and the tips of all 

 the toes are orbicular, as in the rest of this parti- 



