170 SHORT-HEADED TOAD. 



ing specimens of the animal in a state favourable 

 to the examination of this particular. Upon the 

 whole, it appears that there is some analogy in the 

 process of nature with respect to the production 

 of the young, between this animal and the opos- 

 sum. 



According to Fermin, the Pipa is calculated by 

 Nature for producing but one brood of young ; 

 and, compared with the rest of the genus, it can 

 by no means be considered as a very prolific ani- 

 mal ; the number of young produced by the fe- 

 male which he observed, amounted to seventy-five, 

 which were all excluded within the space of five 

 days. 



By a singular error in the Gmelinian edition of 

 the Systema Naturae, the young of the Pipa are 

 said to be at first tailless ; afterwards to acquire 

 that part, and again to lose it. 



SHORT-HEADED TOAD. 



Rana Breviceps. JR. subfusca, subtus pullida, corpore ovato-con- 

 vexo, vitta longitudinaU cincrco-dentata, pedibusjissis. 



Brownish Toad, pale beneath, with ovate convex body, marked 

 by a longitudinal ash-coloured dentated band. 



Rana gibbosa. R. corpore mato-convexo, vitta longitudinali 

 cinereo-dentata, pedilusjissis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 355. 



Rana rubeta Africana. Seb. 2. p. 37. t. 37. f. 3. 



Le Bossu. Cepede. 



Rana breviceps. Schncid. Aniph. p. 140. 



THE Rana breviceps, or Short-headed Toad, is 

 described by Linnaeus, in the first volume of the 



