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the Argus frog or North American spotted bull- ROOM xii. 
frog ; the pipa or Surinam toad, remarkable for Nat. Hist. 
producing its young from numerous cells on its 
back ; the blue and yellow frog; the large tad¬ 
pole of the frog called the paradoxical frog, a na¬ 
tive of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed, the sa¬ 
lamander; the chameleon; the guana; the embroi¬ 
dered 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 t\fo short legs, situated near 
the head, and three pair of branched gills on 
each side of the neck ; the Austrian siren, an ex¬ 
tremely rare animal, an inhabitant of the lake 
Circnitz or Zitticher Sea, in the duchy of Carnio- 
lia ; 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 
de Cappeilo, or spectacle snake, from the East- 
Indies ; the horn-nosed snake, from the interior 
I of Africa; the cerastes or horned viper, from 
Africa ; the sea-green boa, with white bars on 
the 
