V. A Notice concerniug the Gigantic or Great 

 Frog of Pennant. 



Tab. 125. 



Naturalists frequently request me to show them the ani- 

 mal mentioned by Pennant in his Voyage to the Hebrides, 

 p. 1 70, under the name of Gigantic Frog, and in his Bri- 

 tish Zoology as the Great Frog. In the first-mentioned 

 work he refers it to the Rana Bombina of Linn^, but in 

 the other he gives no synonym whatever. 



When I visited Arran, I made it a point to catch every 

 animal of the family that occurred ; and during my stay at 

 Loch Kanza examined, in one evening, nearly six hundred 

 tjiat were taken by Mr. Hanson and myself on the shore of 

 the salt-water lake. Amongst them, several varieties in 

 colour were observed ; many of which agreed so well with 

 Mr. Pennant's description, as to satisfy me perfectly that 

 we had found the animal in question, differing in no respect 

 from the common Toad ( Bufo vulgaris), which occurs in 

 every part of Great Britain in tolerable abundance, espcv 

 cially in the moist woods of Devon and Cornwall ; but no 

 where in such plenty as in the deep glens of Arran, parti- 

 cularly near Ben-Ghaoil, and in the northern 'parts of that 

 island. 



The one figured was taken at Ranza ; it has been corn- 

 pared with specimens collected in various parts of Great 

 Britain, and differs in no respect from them. 



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