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which I did not myself see was discovered at a height of five 

 feet from the ground in the act of descending. It had been 

 alarmed probably at our intrusion, and had fallen to the 

 ground before I reached the spot ; but I had no reason to 

 doubt the accuracy of the statement, for two or three mem- 

 bers of my party pointed to the exact spot from which it had 

 fallen ; and if a frog can climb two feet, there is no reason 

 why it should not climb twenty, or more.* 



Mr. Henry Eeeks afterwards affirmed that he 

 had found frogs frequently in apparently inac- 

 cessible places, such as the tops of pollard willows, 

 in the vicinity of streams, to which they could 

 not have attained save by climbing. The same 

 gentleman also alludes to the toad as an adept in 

 climbing, having often found them in the nests 

 of small birds, in hedges. f Other observers have 

 borne out the above testimony that frogs do 

 climb. 



The common frog has its head nearly tri- 

 angular ; the teeth are minute and arranged in a 

 single row in the upper jaw, with an irregular 

 row across the palate but none in the lower jaw. 

 The tongue is lobed at the tip, and folds back 

 upon itself when not in use. The fore feet have 

 the third toe the longest, and the second the 

 shortest. The hind legs are more than hah as 

 long again as the body, the toes webbed, the 



* Eev. C. A. Johns, in the Zoologist, p. 8861. 

 t Zoologist, p. 8927. 



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