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Pipa. 
Amphibia, reptiles. 2. Rana. . 
. • tiic K 
■tvhich tliey difchargc watet ; in breeding-p™^j^^-‘j. ^(jped' 
thuir'- 
nnb Oi the male is warty : toads are filthy ia 
and live in damp, obfcure, dark places, and craW ^st 
by mabr. tbpir p.t(to ai-p i»-> . cOl^* 
more 
fulM itiali. 
aa iivc m namp, oDicure, ciarK. places, anu 
y night, their eggs are in a long connefted chain • 
lore atlive, more about by day, and lay their CoS® 
A. Body warty, puffed up ; legs jhorter. 
Toes of the fore-feet unarmed, 4-cIeft, of the feJ' 
clawed, palmate. 
Inhabits the waters of Guiana, and is eaten by 
in this extraordinary animal, the male, after the tk 
of the eggs, collefts the mafs together and fmetts h 
hack' of the females with its paws, w here they si"* , jftd 
into cellules, impregnated hy the male and clofed 
forae time the perfect young are excluded from th®p 
tubercles on the back of the female, without gy 
firfl; without tails, the tails are produced fbon 
lad drop off. 
Head flat, broad, very fliort ; beak rpafula-fliaped > S>:. 
Imall and remote ; neck very fiiort, wrinkled 
lar, flat, hlack-bay, with a hard cartilaginous ddy 
round, hind very long, connected by an undis'> ' 
hrane. ■ v 
^Bujo, 
- if'ff 
Mufica. Shoulders gibbous, dotted. 
. Inhabits frelh waters in Surinam : larger than 
toad ; in the evening and during the whole night ^ 
mufical kind of croaking. 
Body varied with lurid and brosvn ; upper eyelid 'll (ity f . 
little warty ; Jhoulders each fide with an oval g' , , . 
forated with dots ; belly and thighs with raifed d^ aP. 
feet cleft ; hindfeet fubpalmate, 5-tbed, with 
claws. 
Body lurid and brown. 
2. Back olive; an unequal yellowilh-red band down 
Body with confluent green fpots and warts on 
the fame colour, thofe of the intervals red i 
between bicolourcd. 
4, Much lefs, 
