THE 



HORNED FROG. 



Generic Character. 



Body four-footed, naked, without tail. 



Lin. Syjl. Nat. 



Specific Character, 

 FROG with horned eyelids. 



Should inquiry be made, which is the uglieft 

 animal yet known to exift ? the creature here repre- 

 fented might perhaps with juftice be propofed as an 

 anfwer: an animal of fuch prodigious deformity as even 

 to exceed in this refpeft the Surinam toad, or Rana 

 Pipa. What gives an afpedt fo peculiarly forbidding 

 to the prefent fpecies is the horned appearance of the 

 front, which is caufed by a (harp-pointed elongation of 

 the upper part of each eyelid into a callous procefs 

 refembling a horn : to this may be added the exceffive 

 width of the mouth, which exceeds that of every other 

 known fpecies of Rana. This animal is extremely 

 rare, and is a native of fome parts of North America. 

 It is principally found in Virginia. Its general colour 



is 



