AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. !2.Rana. 649 
Inhabits woods and fhady damp places of Europe: lives durirfg 
fpring and fiimmer in ftagnant fhallow water, in winter in 
muddy places and not unfiequently in holes of its own dig- 
ging ; feeds by night on various iniefts ; is fo tenacious of 
life that it has been found alive inclofed in rocks, where it 
muft have remained for years ; is devoured by the eagle and 
hawk tribe, and even dometlicated by the natives of U crania. 
Vent obtiife; a. yellow line on the back; body beneath 
fpotted with black. Natter ‘Jafk. 
Inhabits dry fandy places of Europe: appears in the evening 
efpecially after fhowers, and is the fpecies which has been 
fuppofed to have been rained down; is of quicker motion 
than the laft ; 2| inches long, li broad. 
Body above dirty yellow clouded with bfowri, and covered 
with porous pimples of unequal fizes, beneath paler with 
rough black fpots ; forefeet with 4 divided toes, hind-J'eet 5, 
a little webbed. 
Body oval, convex, with a longitudinal cinereous dentate 
band. Gibbous Toad. 
Back marbled with red . and yellowifh-alh ; belly yellow 
fpotted with black. 
Inhabits India, 2) Surinathi 
Belly orange fpotted with Iky-blue ; pupil triangular. 
Laughing Toadt 
2. Belly black with clear white fpots and points. 
3" Brown with white fpots ; Tides and round the joints red. 
4 - With a very loud fonorous voice. 
Inhabits fenny places in Germany and Helvetia; leaps like a 
frog ; emits a clear found like. a man laughing; refembks the 
Common toad, but is fmall, black, aUd every where rough 
with dots on the upper part and variegated beneath, with a 
tranfverfe wrinkle under the neck. 
Above dirty-oHvc: beneath white fpotted with black. 
Salt Toad, 
Inhabits ftagnant fait waters of Berchtefgad ; lefs than R. ar- 
borea ; avoids light, is inodorous and emits no liquid from 
* its minute perforated warts; with brown bands, beneath 
yellow. , 
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