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MEPHITIC TOAD. 



Rana Mcphitica. R. oli'cacea f fusco maculata, cerrucis subruben- 

 tibus, tinea dorsali sulphured. 



Olive Toad, spotted with brown, with reddish warts, and sul- 

 phur-coloured dorsal line. 



Bufo terrestrisfoetidus. Roes. Hist. Ran. p. 106. t. 2-L /. 1. 



Rana Rubeta ?? Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 37. 



THIS species extremely resembles the common 

 Toad in its general appearance, but is somewhat 

 smaller, and is of an olive colour above, and pale 

 grey beneath : the skin, all over the upper parts, 

 is very distinctly tuberculated, and is marked by 

 a pale sulphur-coloured line or narrow band, 

 running down the whole length of the back : the 

 sides are strongly tinged with yellowish red, in 

 the form of an undulated fascia, beneath which 

 are some irregular dark spots : the outsides of the 

 limbs are also marked irregularly with dusky or 

 blackish-brown spots : the eyes are of a glaucous 

 green colour, slightly tinged with red : the body 

 and limbs are very short and thick, and the fore 

 feet are furnished beneath with a pair of bony tu- 

 bercles or processes, by the help of which, as well 

 as by pressing the body close to any substance, so 

 as to exclude the air, this animal is enabled to 

 climb to a considerable height up the sides of walls, 

 &c. which it often does, in order to discover a 

 convenient place of retirement. The hind feet 

 are perfectly void of any webbed appearance; 

 whereas those of the common Toad are pretty 



