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SPINY-FOOTED FROG. 



whole length of the bodj^, on each side, runs a 

 row of blue tubercles or pustules, commencing 

 from the eyes and meeting at the juncture of the 

 hind legs : the upper jaw is beset with a row of 

 longish, thick-set, conical teeth, resembling those 

 of lizards : the hind feet are webbed, and furnished 

 with a callus resembling a sixth toe. The size of 

 the animal is not mentioned. It is a native of 

 India. 



SPINY-FOOTED FROG. 



Rana Spinipes, R.fusca, suhtus coerulescens, laferibvs gilvo fimc- 



fatisj digifis anterioribus spinosis. 

 Brown Frog, blueish beneath ; with the sides speckled with 



ochre colour, and the toes of the fore-feet spiny. 

 Rana Aiistraliaca. Australian Frog. Naturalist's Miscellany, 



vol. 6. pi. 200. 

 Rana Spinipes. Schneid Amph. p, 129. 139. 



This was first described in the Naturalist's Mis- 

 cellany ; and so careful has Mr. Schneider been to 

 preserve it from oblivion, that he has twice de- 

 scribed it in his own work within the compass of a 

 few pages. He is mistaken, however, in suppos- 

 ing it to exist in the British Museum ; the figure 

 having been etched from a drawing made in New 

 Holland, its native country. Its size appears to 

 be somewhat larger than that of the common Eu- 

 ropean Frog, and its habit approaches rather to 

 that of a toad, or a Natter-Jack, which latter 

 it seems to resemble in its manner of walking, 



