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BUFO CLAMOSUS.— Schneider. 



Plate X. 



Characters. Head large; snout obtuse; superciliary ridges greatly elevated; 

 upper jaw emarginate, lower furnished with a tooth in front; body above warty, 

 dusky brown, with a tinge of yellow; beneath granulated, dirty yellowish- white. 



SvNONYMES. Land Frog, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 69. 

 Land Frog, Bartrani, Travels in Carolina, Florida, &c., p. 279. 

 Bufo clamosus, Schneider, Hist. Amphib., fasc. i. p. 214, No. S. 

 Rana lentiginosa, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii.. Part I., pi. 53, p. 173. 

 Bufo musicus, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 92, tab. 33, fig. 3; — Hist. RepL, torn. viii. p. 190. 

 Bufo musicus, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, torn. vi. p. 490. 

 Bufo musicus, Merreni, Versuch. eines Syst. der Amph., p. ISl. 

 Carolina Toad, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is large, dark coloured, and without warts, except a 

 few small ones on the eyelids. The snout is obtuse, and from its tip runs an 

 elevated bony line, subdividing at the nostrils, and forming the supercihary ridges; 

 these increase in elevation as they reach the posterior part of the orbit, where 

 they terminate m a rounded knob or tubercle; their great height gives to the upper 

 surface of the head a canaliculated appearance: a second ridge descends from 

 each of these, and completes the posterior border of the orbit. The upper jaw 

 is yellowish-brown, and deeply emarginate in front; the lower is white, and furnished 

 at its anterior part with a distinct tooth. The nostrils are small and round, placed 

 near the point of the snout. The eyes are large, prominent, and very beautiful; 

 the pupil is black, the iris reticulated with gold and black, and has an inner margin 

 of yellow. The tympanum is small and dusky, with a minute spot of a lighter 



