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breeding time, and shows their characteristic stages and habits: thus 
one of the salamanders is pictured molting, another, a 
Great 
Salamander Male, is brooding a great mass of eggs; and the group 
explains many details of their manner of living. 
This depicts the spring life of a little pond in southern New England, 
in the 
water may 
be seen the 
ege masses and tad- 
poles of various 
toads and frogs, 
while in and about 
the pool are the 
young and full 
grown in character- 
istic poses, includ- 
ing some with vocal 
sacs distended in 
the act of “singing.”’ 
Lower In strik- 
en ae ing ¢ on 
trast with 
these water loving 
animals is a group 
showing one of the 
desert islands off the 
coast of Lower Cali- 
fornia where rep- 
tiles must go with- 
out water for long 
periods. Page 38. 
Latest, 
largest, 
and finest 
of the groupsis that 
showing the semi- 
tropical life of 
Southern Florida, 
on one side a 
stretch of cypress 
swamp, on the 
other the sandy 
lowlands, each with its characteristic life, alligators, turtles, and snakes. 
Florida 
Group 

A BIT OF THE TOAD GROUP 
