A Turn-Coat of the Woods 



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HEREWITH is reproduced a most excel- 

 lent photograph from life of a little 

 creature which almost everyone knows 

 by name and by the sound of its voice, but which 

 is rarely seen. It is the " tree-toad " really 

 not a toad at all, despite its lumpish and warty 

 appearance, but a true frog that spends most 

 of its time in the trees instead of on the ground 

 or in the water, as do others of the family. 



To enable these small frogs to make their 

 homes on the smooth and shaking branches of 

 trees, they are given special means of holding 

 tightly to an upright surface. The extended 

 fingers of the forefoot are not connected by 

 webs, as are those of the water-frogs, nor termi- 

 nated by suckers, like those of some climbing 

 lizards, but are thickened at the ends into knobs, 

 the under sides of which form cushions always 

 moist with a sticky perspiration enabling the 



