

Class III. GREAT FROG. 17 



Ranagibbosa. Gesnerpisc. 80g. Green Frog. Shaw. Gen. Zool. 2. Edible. 



Rana viridis aquatica. Rcesel. iii. 103. tab. 31. 



Hist. ran. 53. t. 13. La Grenouille commune. De 



Rana esculenta. R. cotpore an- la Cepcde. Hist, des Ovip. i. 



gulato, dorso transverse gib- 503. 



bo, abdomine marginato. Rana esculenta. Laur.Amphib. 



Lin. syst. 357. Gm. Lin. 31. 



1053. 



J- HIS differs from the former in having a high Descrip. 

 protuberance in the middle of the back, form- 

 ing a very sharp angle. Its colors are also 

 more vivid, and its marks more distinct ; the 

 ground color being a pale or yellowish green, 

 marked with rows of black spots from the head 

 to the rump. 



This and, we think, the former, are eaten. 

 We have seen in the markets at Paris whole 

 hampers full, which the venders were preparing 

 for the table, by skinning and cutting off the 

 foreparts, the loins and legs only being kept. 

 Our strong dislike to these reptiles, prevented 

 a close examination into the species. 



Great Frog. Br. Zool. iii. p. 3. Great. 



INHABITS the woods near Loch Ransa in 

 the Isle of Arran. 



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