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merable eggs, united by a transparent jelly in two 

 cordons, often from twenty to thirty feet in length, 

 which the male draws along with the hind feet. 

 The tadpole is blackish, and of all those of our 

 country is the smallest when its limbs appear and it 

 loses its tail. The common toad lives more than 

 fifteen years, and produces at four years of age. 

 Its cry has some resemblance to the barking of a 

 dog. 



Reed Toad, {Ran a Bufo Calamita, Gm. Rces. xxiv. 

 Daud. xxvii. 1.) 



Somewhat olive ; tubercles like the preceding ; 

 but not such large pads behind the ears. A yellow 

 longitudinal line over the spine, and a reddish den- 

 ticulated one on the side. The hind feet without 

 membrane. It exhales a disagreeable odour of gun- 

 powder, lives on the land, does not leap at all, but 

 runs tolerably fast ; climbs walls for the purpose of 

 withdrawing into their clefts, and is therefore pro- 

 vided with two small osseous tubercles on the palms 

 of the hands. It goes to the water only for the 

 purpose of coupling in the month of June. It lays 

 two strings of eggs like the common toad. The 

 male cries like that of the tree frog, and has like- 

 wise a pouch under the throat. 



The Broum Toad, (Raiia Romhinq, Gm. 7" Rufo 

 Fuscus, Laurenti. Roes. xvii. xviii.) 



Clear brown, marbled with deep or blackish brown. 



