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was in company with a detachment of British En- 

 gineers in New Zealand, he passed a marsh near 

 Auckland, which was being drained. There was 

 an interesting lot of aquatic creatures left by the 

 receding water, among which the New York man 

 discovered a 



SIX-LEGGED NEW ZEALAND FROG, 

 which he captured and brought with him to 

 Schenectady; the six-legged frog stood the journey 

 without affecting its health and lived happily in 

 a tub of water in Union Street, until some of the 

 children in the spirit of mischief, or maybe with 

 the desire to clean his frogship, or, possibly 

 through thoughtlessness, threw some soap suds in 

 the tub. Now a frog is a cleanly animal and much 

 addicted to bathing, but he does not need soap 

 to keep himself clean, and the consequence of 

 bathing his six legs in soap suds was fatal; so 

 Schenectady lost its six-legged frog, but the 

 Smithsonian Institute at Washington, I hear, was 

 enriched by the accident with a new and unique 

 specimen from New Zealand. 



TWO-HEADED TURTLES 



and two-headed snakes are comparatively frequent 

 occurrences; in a New York paper there was pub- 

 lished a very good half-tone photograph from a 

 live two-headed snake, said to be then living at 

 the Bronx Zoological Park. I did not see the 

 snake, but I have seen photographs of similar ones 

 and have sketched from life many double-headed 

 fishes and, on examination, a mass of the newly 



