80 AMPHIBIA. SERPENTES, 3> 4. 



iris orange, pupil black : nofe with a sli'ght longitudinal indenture, 

 in which is a yellowish mark : tail pointed, the upper-edge black, 

 under-cdge orange: lags gfeenish-brown. 



3. RAN A. Frog, 



9. R. Bufo. Lurid-brown with rufous-brown tubercles, 



beneath paler. 



Common Toad. Shaw Zool. iii. t. 40. 



Body tubercled, fometimes obfcure olive-brown above, paler and 

 irregularly fpotted beneath, 



10. R. Rubetra. Body tubercled, above dirty yellow 

 clouded with brown, beneath paler with black spots : 

 back with a yellow line. 



Natter Jack. Br. Zool. \\\. p. 19. n, 5. . 



Body 2 inches and a quarter long, one and a quarter broad : fore' 

 feet 4-toed : hind-feet 5-toed, a little webbed. 



11. R. temporaria. Yellowish-brown spotted with black, 

 beneath the eyes an elongated brown patch. 



Common Erog.. . Shaw Zool. iii*. /. 28, 29, 3c. 



Body foinetimes dull ferruginous, beneath pale greenish-yellow 

 obfcurely- fpotted and variegated.: bach flattish and more or lefs 

 angular. 



12. R. esculenta. Olive-green spotted with black : back 

 with 3 longitudinal yellowish lines : belly whitish. 



Efculent Frog. Shaw Zool, iii. /. 31. 



Body larger than the last, marked with roundish black patches, 

 beneath whitish-green with brown marks : limbs tranfverfely 

 barred with black : from the tip of the nofe down the back are 3 

 pale yellow stripes, the middle-one slightly depressed, the others 

 strongly elevated : hind-feet palmate. 



ORDER. II. SERPEKTES. SERPENTS. 



4. COLUBER. Viper, Snake. 



13. C. Berns. Grey-brown, with a large, lobed spot on 

 the head : down the back a connected chain of black 

 spots. 



Common Viper. Br. Zool. iii. t. 4. Shaw Zool. iii. t» ici. 



Body from a foot and a half to 3 feet long: fometimes tawny- 

 brown or blackish : iris orange, pupil black : lips variegated black 

 and grey : sides with a row of dusky fpots : belly blackish with a 

 bluish glofs, fpotted with black : scales carinate : p(at$s of the belly 

 146, scales below the tail 39, 



14. C. ccetuleus. Light-brown with an .angular darjc-brown 

 spot on the head : down the back a string, of dark- 

 brown rhomboidal spots : belly light, blue spotted 

 with white; 



Blue-bellied Viper. Sheppard Trans. Linn, vii* p. 56. 

 Length 22-25 inches. Head with a fpot refembling the letter V, the 

 fcales of the under-part yellowish-white edged with dull red : iris 

 red, pupil brownish-black : fcales on the edge of the upper-jaw 

 yellowish-white edged with brown : sides fpotted with dark brown : 

 fcales of the belly, fpotted with white, fome of the first row edged , 

 with white : tail the first part blue edg<rd with red, the end yellow .. 

 fpotted with white. 



