394 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 



Class Batrachia. 



Order — Ecaudata. — It is certainly a remarkable thing for creatures 

 so defenceless as the frogs, to attack and actually overcome animals as 

 well equipped for offence as snakes, but that this occasionally happens 

 must be admitted on so excellent an authority as Mr. E. H. Aitken. 

 He mentions an instance* he witnessed of a bull-frog (Rana tigrina) 

 in this country attempting to swallow a snake about 2 feet long, bat 

 the struggles of the ophidian proved so violent that the batrachian 

 fell into an adjoining tank, and the end of the encounter was loat to 



* Boiiib. Nat. Hist. Jour., Vol. IX., p. 500. 



