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PIPA. 



Rana Pipa. R.fusca, digitis anticis apice quadrifidis. 



Brown Toad, with the toes of the fore feet quadrifid at their 



extremities. 

 Rana Pipa. R. digitis anticis muticis quadridentatis, postids vn- 



guiciilatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 354-. 

 Bufo aquaticus pullos super dorsura gerens. Merian Surinam, 



pi 59. 



Bufo aquaticus Surinamensis. Vincent, pip. 1725. t. 62. 

 Rana Surinamensis. Bradl. Nat. t. 22. f. 1 . 

 Bufo s. Pipa Americana. Seb. 1. p. 121. t. 77. 

 The Pipa, or Surinam Toad. 



THIS also is one of those animals which, at first 

 view, every one pronounces deformed and hide- 

 ous ; the general uncouthness of its shape being 

 often aggravated by a phenomenon unexampled 

 in the rest of the animal world, viz. the young in 

 various stages of exclusion, proceeding from cells 

 dispersed over the back of the parent. 



The size of the Pipa considerably exceeds that 

 of the common toad : the body is of a flattish 

 form ; the head subtriangular ; tiie mouth very 

 wide, with the edges or corners furnished with a 

 kind of short cutaneous, and, as it were, lace- 

 rated appendage on each side : in the male, how- 

 ever, the head is rather oval than triangular, and 

 the parts just mentioned less distinct : the fore 

 feet are tetradactylous, the toes long and thin, 

 and each divided at the tip into four distinct por- 

 tions or processes, each of which, if narrowly in- 

 spected with a magnifier, will be found to be 



