80 AMPHIBIA. SERPENTES. 3, 4. 



iris orange, pupil black : nofe with a slight longitudinal indenture, 

 in which is a yellowish mark : tail pointed, the upper-edge black, 

 under-edge orange: legs greenish-brown. 



3. RANA. Frog. 



9. R, Bitfo. Lurid-brown with rufous-brown tubercles, 



beneath paler. 



Common Toad. Shaw ZocL iii. t. 40. 



Hody tubercled, fometimes obfcnre olive-brown above, palej and 

 irregularly fpotte4 beneath. 



10. R. Jluhftra. Body tubercled, above dirty yellow 

 clouded with "brown, beneath paler with black spots : 

 back with a yellow line. 



Natterjack Br* Zoal.ui. p. 19. n. 5. 



Body 2 inches and a quarter long, one and a quarter broad : fore- 

 feet 4-toed : hind-feet 5-toed, a little webbed. 



11. R. temporaria. Yellowish-brown spotted with black, 

 beneath the eyes an elongated brown patch. 



Common Frog. Shaiu Zool, iii. /. 28, 29, 30. 



Body fometimes dull ferruginous, beneath pale greenish-yellow 

 obfcurtly fpotted and variegated : back llattish and more or lels 

 angular. 



12. R. esculenta. Olivergreen spotted with black : back 

 with 3 longitudinal yellowish lines : belly whitish. 



Efculent Frog. Shaw Zoo.L iii. t. 31. 



Body larger than the last, marked with roundish black patches, 

 beneath whitish-green with brown marks : liinhs tranfverfely 

 barred with black : fronu the tip of the riofe down the bach are 

 pale yellow stripes, the middle-one slightly depressed, the othets 

 strongly elevated : hind-feet palmate. 



ORDER II. SERPENTES. SERPENTS. 



4. COLUBER. Viper, Snake. 



13. C. Berus. Grey-brown, with a large lobed spot on 

 the head : down the back a connected chain of black 

 spots. 



Common Viper. Br. Zcol. iii. t. 4. Shaw Zool. iii. f. ici. 



Body from a foot and a half to 3 feet long: fometimes tawny- 

 brown or blackish : iris orange, pupil black : lips variegated black 

 and grey : sides with a row of dusky fpots : belly, blackish with a 

 bluish glofs, fpotted with black : scales carinate : plates of the belly 

 146, scales below the tail 39. 



1-i. C. caeruleus. Light-brown with an angular dark-brown 

 spot on the head : down tlxe back a string of dark- 

 brown rhomboidal spots : belly light blue spotted 

 with white. 



Blue-bellied Viper. Shfppard Trans. Linn. vii. p. 56. 

 Length 22-25 inches. Head with a fpot refembling the letter V, the 

 fcales of the under-part yellowish-white edged with dull red : iris 

 red, pupil brownish-black : fcales on the edge of the upper-jajv 

 yellowish-white edged with brown : sides fpotted with dark brown : 

 fcales of the belly fpotted with white, fome of the first row edged 

 with white : tail the first part blue edged with red, the end, yellow 



f not ted with white. 



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