12 COMMON FROG. Class III. 



GENUS II. FROG. 



Body, naked. 

 Legs, four. 



Feet, divided into toes. 

 Tail, none. 



1. Common. Bcw^a^Of. Arist. Hist. an. Wasser Frosche. Meyer an. I. 



Lib. iv. c. 9. Tab. 52. 



La Grenoille. Belon poissons, Rana temporaria. R. dorso 



43. planiusculo subangulato. 



Rana fluviorum. Rondel. 217 '. Lin - s V sL 35 7- Gm. Lin. 



Rana aquatica innoxia. Gesner 1053. 



quud.ovip.46. Aquatil.805. Groda, Fro, Klassa. Faun. 



Rana aquatica. RaiiSyn.quad. Suec. No. 102. 



44y # Rana. Gronov. Zooph. No. 62. 



Rana fusca terrestris. Rcesel. La Rousse. De la Cepede. 

 Hist. ran. i. t. 1 — 8. Hist, des Ovip. i. 528. 



feO common and well-known an animal re- 

 quires no description, but some of its proper- 

 ties are so singular, that we cannot pass them 

 unnoticed. 



Its spring or power of taking large leaps is 

 remarkably great, and it is the best swimmer of 

 all four-footed animals. Nature hath finely 

 adapted its parts for those purposes, the fore 

 members of the body being very lightly made, 

 the hind legs and thighs very long, and furnish- 

 ed with very strong muscles. 



