‘"harlequik” toads. 161 
prize, if not indigenous to the Korea, must have 
travelled a pretty long way. 
The ancient weather-stained masses are often 
heaped up in the strangest confusion, and possess 
a positive though borrowed beauty from the Le- 
pralias and other lichens with Avhich they are en- 
crusted. They are usually of a frosty-white, pale- 
green, or rusty-brown ; but sometimes you observe 
a bright orange patch. Among these lichen-covered 
fragments of primeval granite I found my ‘‘harlequin” 
toads ; and as the rain had brought put the worms 
and other dainties on • which they feed, they were 
hopping lazily about in all directions. I know not 
if this very peculiar toad has been described, but I 
have preserved some specimens in spirit for Dr. 
Gray. The orange, however, has turned dull 
yellow from the action of the alcohol. 
After much scrambling and unwonted exertion, 
I found myself on the top of the hill, among a heap 
of old-world stones. It Wcis just after a hea\y rain, 
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and the rocks were still wet and dripping, I saw 
nothing but a number of these gorgeous toads, in a 
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