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HORNED TOAD. 



logue of Vincent's Museum, at iHe Hague. It 

 is there called Bufo Americanus rarissimus, S^c, 

 The body large and round ; the back cinereous, 

 marbled with brown: the brown colour, . which 

 appears in the middle, .parted by a cinereous list 

 or stripe, which runs from the lower part of the 

 horned eyes, to a great distance, and ends in a 

 point. Above the large, horned eyes, which are 

 seated near each other, and towards the back part 

 of the head, are placed two holes, or seeming spi- 

 racles : the head is smooth and broad ; but the 

 back, on each side the middle stripe, is beset with 

 rough tubercles as far as the belly : there are four 

 feet, which are marbled Avith deep brown spots : 

 the mouth is very large, being a hand's breadth ii^ 

 diameter, and equalling that of the body : beneath 

 the mouth and neck the colour of the skin is 

 brown : all the belly, as far as the rump, is whit- 

 ish : the toes of the feet are divided ; those of the 

 fore feet being four in number, and those of the 

 hind five." 



Mr. Schneider also has described two specimens 

 of this animal, which were brought from Surinam. 

 The parts which Linnseus somewhat improperly 

 calls horns, are, he observes, a pair of acuminated, 

 callous processes, of a conical shape, seated on the 

 eyelids : the whole back, according to Mr. Schnei- 

 der, is scattered over with §harp tubercles; and 

 the gape of the mouth reaches almost half the 

 length of the body : the eyes rather small, and less 

 distant than in most other frogs : the feet smooth, 

 and the toes unarmed : the fore feet unwebbed ; 



