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warts and pimples. Above of a yellowish -brown 

 or olivaceous, clouded here and there with darker 

 shades ; a line of bright yellow along the middle 

 of the back ; warts and pimples, especially the 

 porous protuberance behind the eyes, reddish; 

 beneath whitish, often spotted with black ; legs 

 marked with transverse black bands.* 

 Length 2f inches; hind leg 2 inches. 



* Jenyn's " Manual of British Vertebrate Animals," 

 p. 302. 



