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DISCOGLOSSID^. 



times forming handsome symmetrical markings; a/large 

 triangular, heart-shaped, or chevron-shaped marking 

 is usually present between the eyes. Lower parts 

 ivory-white, uniform or closely speckled with brown, 

 yellowish or more or less carneous under the limbs. 

 Iris golden in its upper portion, dark bronzy in its 

 lower two-thirds, the dark lateral streak of the head 

 passing through the eye ; sometimes entirely bronze- 

 brown, as in Bombintdor, with a fine golden border to 

 the pupil, interrupted at the lower angle. 



Fig. 50. 



Lower view of male with nuptial excrcsconces. 



Male distinguished from the female by much stronger 

 muscular fore limbs, more developed inner carpal 

 tubercle, a great enlargement and flattening of the 

 inner finger, and more fully webbed toes, the web even 

 extending to the inner metatarsal tidjercle. Vocal 

 sacs ai^e in a rudimentary condition, and do not com- 



