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THE MARBLED TREE-TOAD. 



It derives its name from the aspect of the head, which looks as if it was overgrown 

 with lichens. It is generally found among the wild pine trees, and is very active, being 

 able to take considerable leaps. Sometimes it puffs out its body, and causes a kind of 

 frothy moisture to exhale from the skin. This moisture adheres to the fingers like gum, 

 and causes the Frog to leave a trail behind it like that of a snail or slug. 



The color of the Lichened Tree-Toad is pale red mottled with brown, and having a 

 large patch of the same color between the shoulders. The muzzle and sides are pale 

 green, spotted with dark reddish brown, and below it is whitish gray, the chin being 

 speckled with reddish brown. The head is flattened, sharply pointed at the muzzle, 

 and studded with sharp bony ridges. Its ordinary length is about four inches. 



ANOTHER species of the same genus, the MARBLED TREE-TOAD (Trachycitphalus 

 marmordtus), is described by the same writer : 



"One of them was taken in a bedroom at Savannah-le-Mar, one night in October, 

 having probably hopped in at the open window from the branches of a mango tree only 



POUCHED FROQ.Nototrema marsupiatum. 



a few feet distant. I was surprised at its change of color, in this respect resembling 

 the chameleon and ancles, or still nearer, the geckos. 



When I obtained it, the whole upper parts were of a rich deep amber brown, with 

 indistinct black bands. On looking at it at night, to my surprise I saw a great alter- 

 ation of hue. It was paler on the head and back, though least altered there ; on the 

 rump and on the fore and hind legs it was become a sort of semi-pellucid drab, marked 

 with minute close-set dark specks. When disturbed, it presently became slightly paler 

 still, but in a few minutes it had recovered its original depth of tint. In the course of 

 half an hour it displayed again the speckled dark hue, and now uniformly so, save a 

 black irregular patch or two on the head, and a dark patch between the mouth and 

 each eye. The belly, which was very regularly shagreened, was of a dull buff, not 

 susceptible of change. Its eyes retained their proverbial beauty, for the irides were of 

 a golden-brown tint, like sun-rays shining through tortoise-shell. 



This specimen was about as large as a middling English Frog, being two inches and 

 a quarter in length. 



