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In some works on the subject this frog is described as of a 

 uniform white colour on the lower surfaces. This is misleading, 

 inasmuch as a distinct network of yellow or reddish colouring 

 between the fore legs can be often detected, and such a statement 

 might cause more hasty collectors to reject this species as a 

 variety of R. fusca. The darker streak from eye to eye, per- 

 ceptible with many batrachians, reptiles, and, curiously enough, 

 among the higher classes of vertebrates, is here rarely absent. 

 Still, this is by no means an infallible mark, as some specimens 

 show no traces of it. 



I am not aware whether this species has been mentioned from 

 Meran, in the Tyrol. I obtained there, in 1887, some specimens 

 of the normal type. 



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Death of Mr. Charles Jamrach. — With the death of Mr. Chas. Jamrach , 

 at the age of 76, on Sept. 6th, a notable character has disappeared. He was 

 a London merchant, and the commodities in which he dealt were wild beasts. 

 For many a year Mr. Jamrach had traded in this curious kind of stock, as 

 his father had done before him, and his place of business in Ratcliff Highway 

 had long been a sort of Mecca to pilgrims interested in his peculiar wares. 

 Here a tiger might be purchased with no more words than need be expended 

 over the sale of a horse, and an elephant bought as readily as a pair of 

 pigeons in the Seven Dials. A lively crocodile or rattlesnake was always 

 on hand for any one with a weakness for that kind of pet. Here a cockatoo 

 chattered on a perch, hard by a cage in which a dozen or so monkeys hatched 

 plots against its crest and feathers. An anteater lay beside the stove, while 

 an ugly baboon muttered and grumbled over its captivity. Anything or 

 everything could be bought here or obtained within a reasonable time, 

 provided the purchaser was willing to pay the price. Mr. Jamrach had 

 " relations " with the wild-beast men all over Europe ; and there was, 

 perhaps, not a Zoological Garden from Stockholm to Naples where he was 

 not well known. His establishment was no doubt one of the sights of 

 London. But after seeing his beasts and birds, his creeping things and his 

 crawling things, and after listening to his professional talk, the visitor left 

 in doubt whether there was any curiosity in his place to equal Mr. Jamrach 

 himself. Certainly to those who like to study their species, the men who 

 came to sell and the customers who came to buy were quite as entertaining 

 as the articles in which they dealt. If a foreign ship had come into port, 

 the chances were that before long he would be visited by some of the crew. 



