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Frogs with rather slender bodies^ long limbs ^ and the 

 tips of the toes flat ^ orbicular^ and dilated. 



ZEBRA FROG. 



Rana Zebra. R. rufo-Jiavescens,fusco fasciata Sf maculata ; crw- 



ribmfasciis geminatis, pedibus palmatis. 

 Yellowish rufous Frog, spotted and fasciated with brown ; with 



doubled fascia? on the legs, and palmated feet. 

 Rana maxima. K. pedibus omnibus palmatis S)- cum digitis faS' 



ciatiSj corpore venuloso mriegato : summo dorso oblique maculato. 



Lin.' Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1053. Laur. Amph. p. 32. 

 Rana Virginiana exquisitissima. Seb. I. p. 115. t. 72. jf. 3^ - 

 Rana boans. Lin. f 



This appears to be by far the largest of all the 

 Hyla^, or slender-bodiecl Frogs, and is, according 

 to Seba, a native of Carolina and Virginia. Its 

 colour is an elegant pale rufous brown, beauti- 

 fully marked on the back and limbs, and even 

 to the ends of the toes, with transverse chesnut- 

 coloured bands, which on the limbs are double 

 and much more numerous than on the back : 

 from the corners of the mouth run two veiy nar- 

 row pale lines, as in the Argus Frog, separating, 

 as it Avere, the region of the back from the other 

 parts ; the head and sides are irregularly marked 

 with numerous small chesnut-coloured spots and 

 veins : all the feet are webbed, and the tips of all 

 the toes are orbicular, as in the rest of this parti- 



