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purpose of studying their habits; their wattles were of a light-rose tint, 
changing into a violet colour towards the base, but after death, when their 
skins were dried, the wattles assumed a dull orange tint. The parent birds 
had wattles of the usual rich crimson-lake colour, the base being tinted with 
violet as in the young birds. 
The egg has almost similarly rounded extremities. Length 1-7 inch, 
breadth 1:1 inch; the under tint of the egg is brownish, mottled with grey 
and dark brown blotches which are larger and darker at the larger ends. 
Arr. XXV.—On the New Zealand Frog. By Dr. Frirzincer. Translated 
from the Zoology of the Voyage of the ** Novara," by Professor Hutton. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 14th October, 1879.] 
Family Bombinatoride. 
Auprrory passage imperfectly developed ; transverse processes of the sacral 
vertebra triangular, flat; no paratoids. (Fingers and toes not dilated at 
the tips; maxillary teeth). 
Genus Leiopelma, Fitz. 
Tympanum, sacs, and auditory tubes wanting; teeth in the upper jaw, 
and in two faint oblique rows on the palate, behind and between the interior 
nares. Tongue roundish, more orless margined. Fingers free. Toes half 
webbed. Projection of the navicular bone small. 
L. mocusrETTERI, Fitz. Verhandl. d. zool-bot. Gesellschaft zu Wien, Jahrg 
1861; Xl; pag. 218, Taf. V1. 
Body moderately compressed. Eyes rather large; muzzle rather longer 
than the eye; exterior nostrils rather nearer to the eye than to the end of 
the muzzle. 
A glandular fold between the posterior corner of the eye and the shoul- 
der; a second from the eyes, along the sides of the body to the thighs. 
Several warts about the corner of the mouth, and a few smaller ones on the 
back and on the sides of the rump. Two smooth, yellow callosities on the 
palm of the hand, one on the metacarpus of the thumb, and one near that 
of the fourth finger. Fingers and toes depressed. Toes connected by the 
web for about half their length, the free part bordered by the membrane. 
Projection of the navicular bone faintly elevated. A dark-grey triangular 
band between the eyes, in front of which is a broadish and lighter oblique 
stripe; hind limbs with broad cross. bands on a yellowish-brown ground. 
Belly and sides of rump dirty grey-violet, marbled with yellowish-brown; a 
