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months it disappears. It was an ornament only — a 

 pretty thing — made out of an old implement that was 

 once useful otherwise. 



Fig. 15. — Crested newt (Triton cristatus). Lower figure, male; 

 upper figure, female. 



Sometimes the Axolotls (Figs. 16 and 17) — a 

 Mexican tailed form — are found albino or white — 

 from causes not understood. 



Weapons 



Besides the horns noted in the South American 

 poisonous frogs (and these may be mere ornaments) 

 the modem amphibians are scarcely endowed with spe- 

 cial weapons^— aside from tongue and teeth for prey- 

 taking. Frogs have been recorded as fighting desper- 

 ately with each other, some having had their bodies 

 ripped open ; but with what kind of weapons it is 

 not stated. The teeth on the margin of the ja\^s may 



