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Among the tortoises the most remarkable are, room xik 
the fierce tortoise, and the radiated tortoise. NatTTust. 
Among the frog tribe may be particularized, 
the Argus frog, or North American spotted bull¬ 
frog ; the pipa or Surinam toad, remarkable for 
producing its young from numerous cells in its 
back; the blue and yellow frog: the large tad¬ 
pole of the frog, called the paradoxical frog, a 
native of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed the 
salamander, the chamseleon, the guana, the 
embroidered lizard, from New Holland ; several 
young crocodiles of different sizes and kinds; 
and in one bottle the egg of a crocodile, with a 
young one of a few days’ growth. The siren, 
from South Carolina, resembling in shape and 
colour, a large eel, furnished with two short legs, 
situated near the head, and three pair of branch¬ 
ed gills on each side of the neck ; the Austrian 
siren, an extremely rare animal, an inhabitant of 
the lake Circnitz or Zitticher Sea, in the duchy 
ofCarniolia; it is about thirteen inches in length, 
and of a very pale or whitish rose colour, with 
four legs, very distant from each other. 
Among the serpents, the most remarkable are 
the following, viz. rattle-snakes of different spe¬ 
cies, from North and South America ; the cobra 
di Capello, or spectacle snake, from the East- 
Indies ; 
