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AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. 2. Rana. 651 
Above afhy-glaucous varied v/ith blackifh-green fpots, be-' 
Heath dirty-white ; hind-feet femipalmate, with the 
appearance of 7 toes. Dejert Toad. 
Inliabits dry dcfarls r.>iar the Ural: foinetimes hides in holes 
and crawls out in the evening ; refembles the common toadj 
but is larger. 
A tranfverfe fpot between the eyes forked behind, and other 
fpots running obliquely from the eyes to the nofe i 
body above cinereous, with longitudinal fnbconfiueiH 
brown fpots varied with diiFerent fhades of green ; be- 
neath dallied with whiti(b-a(h. Siberian Toad. 
Inhibits Siberia ; hze of the common toad ; leaps ilo’.viy. 
Utad fliort ; body abuve iprinkled with fubwarty papillae. 
Body brown, fpotted above with cinereous; dorfal line 
yellow or grecnilh ; beneath fmooth, wnitifli ; 
haunches brown fpotted with milk-white. 
‘Jocular Toad, 
f ound in great numbers near the rivers which empty therafelves 
into the Cajpian lea ; never ventures on dry land ; is veiy 
large, and often weighs more than half a pemnd ; refembles 
R-. temporaria, but broader and fhorter ; its voice in the 
evening is like a man laughing. 
■Head broad; upper eyelid convex fprinkled with pores ; aper- 
tures of the .ears flat; back porous; Jdes with obfolete 
Warts ; fore-thumb divaricate, thick at the bafe, the next toe 
fhorter than all the reft ; hind-/f»»ir fubfafeiate ; hind-feet 
with a callus within refembling a lixth tee ; toe,s with a wart 
beneath near the joints. 
’ Colour variable ; back and fidcs gibbous ; warts ycllowifli 
m ^bc centre, very fmall on the middle of the back,, 
and larger on the moft prominent part of the flanks. 
, Changeable Toad. 
Inhabits ftiady places in lower Germany ; above 2 inches long; 
in its habits holds an intermediate rank between the toad and 
. frog ; when full awake the body is white with green fpots, 
in the heat of the fun entirely cinereous, when 
fpots only are cinereous, and when torpid the body as a 
flefla-colour call. . r v. 
Head rounded; mouth without teeth; margin of the uj^cr 
jau doubled; tongue flefhy, thick, placed far back, the bale 
obfeurely bifid, very entire at the tip ; upper eyelid hardly 
4 O 2 any. 
