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lias arisen much confusion, with respect to the 

 species 



SALINE FROG. 



Rana Salsa. R. olimceo-fusca, suhtus albida fasco maculata, di- 



gitis omnibus Jissis. 

 Olive-brown Frog, whitish beneath, with dusky variegations, 



and with all the toes jiinwebbed. 

 Bufo salsus. Shrank. Naturg. Br, iiber. Oestreich, SfC. I, p. 308, 



This species appears to be much allied to the 

 preceding, but differs not only in colour, but in 

 having the hind feet webbed, which in the former 

 are Mddely palmated. Its colour is olive brown 

 above, and whitish beneath, Avith dusky variega- 

 tions, and with the insides of the feet yellow. 

 When first taken out of the water the brown co- 

 lour has a blueish cast : the legs are fasciated with 

 brown, and the back is beset with tubercles. It 

 is an inhabitant of salt marshes in some parts of 

 <5ermany. 



* The wretched figure of this animal in the work of the Count 

 de Cepede, like many others in that publication, must be consi- 

 dered as merely introduced for form's sake. 



