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female, and they undergo their transformation and live as Tadpoles there, hopping forth in due time 

 as perfect Frogs. 



The Tree Frogs belonging to the genus Polypedates are arboreal in their habits, and have 

 the fingers and toes ending in discs. They are found very widely distributed in the East Indies 

 and in Madagascar, and they are very interesting from being able to change their colour. They have 

 a smooth skin and a short fold from behind the eye above the tympanum, which is more or less 

 distinct. The adults have vomerine teeth, and the tongue is long and deeply notched behind. The 

 fingers are slightly webbed, and the toes are broadly so. The discs are well developed, The Common 

 Indian Tree Frog * is one of them, and is found widely over Ceylon and the Indian Continent. It 



POUCHED FROO. 



ascends to an altitude of 2,780 feet in the Sikkim Himalayas, and at Penang, where it is not found in 

 the valleys, it lives at a height of 2,000 feet. They are slender Frogs with broad heads and short 

 snouts. They change their colours, for sometimes they are buff above, sometimes ashy-grey, or 

 chocolate-brown tinged with rose or lilac, black spots being more or less visible. 



The Spuri-ed Tree Frog f has a flat, depressed triangular head, a large eye, the tympanum being 

 half its size. Its fingers are not webbed, and the heel has a spur-like appendage. The male has vocal 

 sacs. The colour is greyish or olive-yellow above, with an hour-glass black mark on the back. It is 

 yellowish beneath, and the hind limbs have dark cross-bands. It is not rare in Ceylon. Another 

 kind is from Afghanistan, and it is a brown Frog very finely speckled with grey. 



The genus has a species in Natal, and Dr. Andrew Smith found it on the leaf of a thick reed 

 growing on the marshy banks of a small river a little to the westward of Port Natal. Others are 

 found in Madagascar and Japan. 



There are some small Tree Frogs which inhabit Ceylon, Java, the Philippine Islands, and Borneo. 

 They have no vomerine teeth, and the skin is smooth or else tuberculate, and their tongue is long and 



* Polypedates maculatus. t Polypedates eques- 



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