[i;y Aruiur ii^iaie. 

 THE SURINAM TOAD. 

 The most remarkable characteristic of this usly creature is the mode of nurturing and developing the eggs. These are 

 deposited on the back of the female, where they sink into the thick yielding skin and each pocket-like cavity is in due time 

 covered with a shining horny lid. After eighty-two days the young Toads lift up these lids and emerge, fully developed. The 

 Toad Bpends most of its time in the water. 



