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NATURAL HISTORY. 



SUKINAM TOAD. (Pipa americana.) 



feet, and small fore limbs with four slender webless fingers curiously ending in four small projec- 

 tions, sometimes grows to a length of nearly a foot. It has a blackish-brown body, and is a native of 

 Surinam and of the neighbouring parts of South America. Living a monotonous life, apparently on 

 land at the edges of the swamps and plantation ditches, and amongst buildings, this Pipa americana, 



