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is fixed. It jumps and swims nearly as well as the True Frogs, and has a warty body with a dirty 

 green tint above, and the belly fiery red and spotted with blue. It is called the Fire-bellied Toad, and 

 has a fine sonorous voice, and the cry is ouvk, ouvk.* The larvae are large ; it is a dweller in 

 marshes, and is an European kind. 



The genus Pelobates is the last of this family to be noticed, and it has species in France. They 

 are fine Frogs, having the tongue free behind, but scarcely notched. They have no tympanum, and the 

 arms have a special gland and the hind feet a sharp swelling. The web is complete in the feet. 



FIRE-BELLIED FROG. 



One is grey-brown in colour,f smells like onions, and jumps like a Frog, and makes holes and 

 burrows in the mud with its hind limbs. It has a loud cry of ouk, and the metamorphosis of 

 the very large Tadpoles lasts a long time. 



The Globose Cacopus Frog is worthy of its name, and is found in the Madras Presidency. The 

 head is very short, and so are the limbs, and the mouth is small ; the body is bulged out in a globular 

 form, and the limbs and toes are short and slightly webbed. It has a small eye with a round pupil, 

 and the skin is smooth, brown, and black on the tail. They have a circular tongue. Dr. Giinther 

 states that he has seen two specimens of this species, one thirteen lines long, and a larger thirty-four 

 lines long, which was a female. " The little one is distended with fluid in an extraordinary manner, 

 so that the body has the shape of a ball, from which the head and limbs project. The fluid is con- 

 tained in the abdominal cavity. The larger individual is distended in a similar way, but this is caused 

 by an extraordinary development of the ovaria (or egg-producing structures). These organs become so 

 large that, not having room in the cavity of the body, they extend right across the back, so that the 

 animal is completely surrounded by a mass of the ovaries." 



The Common Toad J is, of course, the type of the third family, the BUFONID.E. It has a swollen, 

 heavy-looking body, covered with a warty skin, and it has a large flat head with a rounded blunt 

 muzzle. There is a swelling above the eyes studded with pores, and the parotids are large, thick, 

 prominent, and secrete an acrid fluid. There are no teeth. It has four fingers and five toes, and 



ombinator igneus. 



f Pelobates fuscus. 



Bufo vulyaris. 



