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system 
1. Rana esculenta ridibunda, Pallas. 
Boulenger, P.Z.S. 1891, pp. 375, 376, 377. 
This race of the edible frog is very common in the small 
fountains round the lake, and I also found it occasionally under 
stones at the edge of the lake itself. Mr. Boulenger tells me 
that he has examined specimens of very large size from this 
neighbourhood. 
2. Hyla arborea savignyi, Aud. 
Boulenger, Cat Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 380. 
found a small specimen sitting dead but apparently unin- 
jured on a stone at the edge of the lake, and at N azareth, I saw 
many adults clinging to the walls of a large cistern lined with 
cement. In about half of them the dorsal surface was uniform 
leaf-green ; in some it was pale clay-colour and in others of a 
udouin ; in none is there any trace of a line onthe groin. The 
colour-characters on which the racial distinction of the form is 
based seem, therefore, to be constant. 
3. Bufo viridis, Laur. 
Boulenger, op. cit., p. 297. 
is toad is common at Tiberias b 
: ut not often seen as it is 
strictly nocturnal in its habits. 
4. Clemmys caspica rivulata, Valenc. 
small pools and springs 
bask in the sun at the edge, 
ed and immediately dive and 
he bottom. Probably the older 
f, but they are seldom seen. I 
watched a half-grown individual eating grape-skins that had 
been thrown into a pool at Ain-et-Tineh, 
| Boéttger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 208. 
