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The upper parts are marked with, large brown spots, 

 either separate or compact, on a greyish ground ; on the 

 sides the spots are of the same colour, but smaller ; under 

 parts white ; the spur and tips of the toes black. 



Appears to have been observed only in Spain and the 

 South of Prance. Said by M. Crespon to be rare in the 

 Department du Gard. 



Genus BOMBINATOR. 



Tongue circular, entire, very slender, spongy, and ad- 

 hering to the bottom of the mouth ; palate with a small 

 interrupted row of teeth between the posterior edge of the 

 inner nostrils ; no outward appearance of a tympanum ; 

 fore-legs with four short unequal toes, with a rudiment of 

 a fifth. Only one species. 



Bornbinator igneus. 



Bombinator igneus, Dust, et Bib. vol. viii. p. 487 ; Schinz, Europ. 



Faun. vol. ii. p. 77 ; Buou. Faun. ItaL (figured). 

 Bornbinator pachypus, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figured). 



Description. — In shape, less compact than the Toads, but 

 not as slim as the true Frogs ; body and head depressed ; 

 muzzle much rounded, eyes projecting ; nostrils placed far 

 apart, and at the spot where the upper jaw turns down- 

 wards to the lower ; the forehead and crown flat ; all the 

 upper surface of the body covered with warts of different 

 sizes, and sometimes with minute spines ; the fore-legs, 

 stretched along the body, reach to the origin of the hind- 

 legs ; these last will extend beyond the mouth by the 

 length of their toes ; the third toe of the fore-foot is the 

 longest, then the second, and the first is the shortest ; the 

 webs of the hind-feet reach almost to the ends of the toes. 



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