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NATURAL HISTORY. 



HORXED CERATOPHRYS. 



or in its vicinity. Dr. Andrew Smith saw many in water, where at other seasons none existed, and 

 the probabilities are that they bury themselves during the dry season. They are beautiful Frogs, 

 five inches and a half in length, and their green, brown, and red tints, and pretty eyes, make 

 them very picturesque. 



Some species of the family of the True Frogs have no teeth on the vomer, and they belong to 

 the genus Oxyglossus. A species lives in Java, and some fossil kinds, which are found in the so- 

 called Frog-beds of Bombay, are of an early Tertiary age. 



