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on the two thighs, by means of some threads of a 

 glutinous matter. He continues to carry them 

 until the eyes of the tadpole become apparent 

 through the envelope which contains it. When 

 they are about to exclude the young, the toad 

 seeks some dormant water in which to deposit them. 

 They immediately open, and the tadpole issues forth 

 and swims. It is very small and lives on flesh. 

 This species is common in the stony places in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris.* 



A toad is found in Sicily two or three times as 

 large as ours, brown, and with flat and irregular 

 tubercles. It remains, by preference, in the tufts 

 of palm-trees. We name it, Biifo Palmarum. 



The foreign toads have been hitherto but badly 

 determined ; there are many of them remarkable for 

 size. 



The Marine Toady {Rana Marina, Gm. Daud. 

 XXX vii. Spix. XV.) 



Brown, varied with deeper brown, unequal tuber- 

 cles, not much projecting. The triangular parotids 

 are more than an inch broad, in some individuals of 

 from ten to twelve inches long, not including the feet. 

 It lives in the marshy countries of South America. f 



* We cannot tell why Merrem has placed this toad in his genus Bombi- 

 nator. The tympanum in the present species is perfectly visible. 



f Add Bufo Maculiventris, Spix, xv., if, indeed, it differ from Marina ; 

 B. Ictericus, id. xvi. 1 ; B. Lazarus, id. xvii. 1 ; B. StcUatus, id. xviii. 1 ; 

 B. (?caier, Daud. xxxiv, 1., which is not the same as the B. Scaber,oi 



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