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VERTEBRATA. REPTILIA. 



animals, and animated by their light and lively gam- 

 bols. Let us contemplate their little manoeuvres, 

 observe them in the midst of the calm lakes, whose 

 solitude they relieve without troubling their repose ; 

 see them exhibit beneath the sheets of water the 

 most agreeable tints, cleave the bosom of the tran- 

 quil stream, and vary its silvery surface with many 

 a circling furrow." 



Hyla* the Tree-frog. 



TREE-FROG (Hi/la 



We have no example of this genus in England, 

 though one (H. Viridis) is common on the conti- 



* r/ TXw, liyle, a wood. 



