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NA T UliA L HIS TOli Y. 



line of silvery tint beginning at the eyes, and surrounding the top of the body. It is the Elegant 

 Hyla.* Another, with a broad head, large discs, and slight webs, is a large Frog measuring three 

 inches and a half in length, and it inhabits the same localities as the last species.t 



The Common Golden Tree Frog! widely distributed over Australia, and is the most common of 

 all the Batrachians there. The natives, when pinched for food, capture large numbers by the light 

 of a torch at night, and a supply of this Frog can always be secured in the neighbourhood of fresh 

 water. 



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GOOSE-FOOTED HYLA. 



In Tasmania there is a little Hyla (H. ewingii), which has no web on the extremities. 



Hyla versicolor has a moister and more viscid look than the other species, and more resembles a 

 Toad in form. It is a great croaker in damp weather, and it lives on trees in the Northern United 

 States. It is a beautiful creature, and the colour varies from the palest ash to dark brown, and it is 

 blotched with brown, green, white, and yellow. 



There is a genus of this family of Hylidse which lives in Mexico, and is remarkable on account of 

 the existence of a pouch on the back of the female, just above the lower part of the spine. This 

 Nototrema is a curious form even in the Tadpole state, for its branchiae are terminated by a disc 

 which is bell-shaped. The eggs are placed by the hind feet of the male into the pouch of the adult 



Hyla eleyans. 



t Hyla %>almata. 



Hyla a urea. 



Nototrema marsupiatum. 



