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SPANISH-TOWX. 
my friend possessing no slight claims to distinction. 
He thus describes it to me, under date of Jan. 5, 1847. 
It is distinctively a Toad, but of prodigious size, 
being six and a half inches from the muzzle to the 
coccygeal extremity, and as broad as it is long. It was 
taken by some negro labourers while clearing land, 
in the neighbourhood of the Rio Cobre, at Passage 
Fort; and we are indebted to Mr. Robert Wilkie, our 
clerk of the peace, who had been seeking a sea-side 
change of air in that vicinity, for this interesting 
addition to the Jamaican Fauna. I can say little about 
any peculiarity it may have. Twice when taken out 
from the moist corner of the out-room in which I keep 
it, and brought into the house, it has discharged a 
large quantity of liquid from its vent, quite colour- 
less ; — and when I have had it by me in a reclined 
glass shade (one of the glass cylinders we use over 
candles), while making a drawing of it, I have smelt 
an odour, not very strong, but sufficiently offensive, — 
a compound of garlic and exploded gunpowder, — which 
I suspected came from it, but which I could not trace 
to it. The whole cuticle is tuberculous. The tu- 
bercles on the back, arms, and thighs are very large ; 
hut the surface of each is smooth, except those of the 
expanded eye-brows, which are rough and warty.” 
A few days afterwards another specimen came into 
Mr. Hill’s possession, dead. — “ Its hinder legs are 
longer, and its hinder feet are more deeply webbed 
than those of the former Toad ; the connecting mem- 
brane in my living one being very little more than 
rudimentary. Though this last specimen is not so 
large as the first, it is still monstrously big, and in 
