T O A D. Class III. 



€olor being a pale or yellowifh green, marked with 

 rows of black fpots from the head to the rump. 



This and, we think, the former, are eaten. 

 We have feen in the markets at Pa-ris whole ham- 

 pers full, which the venders were preparing for 

 the table, by fkinning and cutting off the fore- 

 parts, the loins and legs only being kept. Our 

 llrong diilike to thefe reptils, prevented a clofe ex- 

 amination into the fpecies. 



Toad. ^^w©-. JriJ}. Hiji. an. lib, 

 ix. c, I. 40. 

 Bufo. l^irg. Georg. I. 184. 

 Rubeta. Plin. lib, VDI. c. 



31- 



Rubeta fc. Phrynum. Gefner 

 pi/c. 807. Rondel, 222. 



Bufo iive Rubeta. Rati fyn. 

 quad. 252. 



Bufo rubetarum. Klein quad. 

 122. 



Rana Bufo. R. corpore 

 ventricofo, verrucofo lurido 

 fufcoque. Lin. fyfi, 354. 



Padda, TafTa. Faun. fuse. 

 No. 275. 



Gro7iou. Zooph* No. 64. 



'T^HE mod deformed and hideous of ail ani- 

 •^ mals; the body broad, the back fiat, and 

 covered with a pimply dufky hide ; the belly large, 

 fwagging, and fwelling out-, the legs Ihort, and 

 its pace labored and crawling : its retreat gloomy 

 and nithy : in fhort, its general appearance is fuch 

 as to ftrike one with difguft and horror; yet we 

 have been told by thofe who have refolution to view 

 it with attention, that its eyes are fine : to this it 



feems 



