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The Hifiory of ANIMALS,, 
quiet by day, but, as night comes on, they are feen inceffantly hopping from branch 
to branch, and catching infefts. Moft of the writers on animals have defcfibed this 
fpecies. Linnaeus calls it Rana viridis ; Charleton, Johnfton, and others, Ranunculus 
viridis ; and Gefner, Dryope es. ' 
Rana dorfo pullifero. 
The Rana> with the young coming from the bach . 
This is a large and moft extreamly lingular fpecies ; it’s body is about four inches 
and a half long, and near three and a half broad : the head is large, and of a pyrami¬ 
dal form : the opening of the mouth very wide; the eyes are not very large, and 
ftand forward on the head : the fore legs are flender, and not very long : the feet of 
them have each four toes, which are connected together; the hinder legs are very 
large, robuft, and ftrong, and much longer than the fore ones; they have five toes to 
each foot, conne&ed together by a membrane or web: the colour of the whole animal 
is a deep dufky brown, variegated with irregular lines and ftreaks of black, and with 
fmall fpots. The firft appearance of the young is in this creature a very amazing cir- 
cumftance; the back of the female is found elevated in many places into little tuber¬ 
cles of an obtufe form, and from thefe the young ones make their way very fmall, 
but in their perfedt form. This is worthy a very ftridt attention, and it is much to be 
wifhed, that fome perfon of abilities may have an opportunity of examining thoroughly 
into it on the fpot. 
The flaves on the Surinam fettlements eat this fpecies, and efteem it a very delicate 
food. Moft of the late writers have named it under the title of the Surinam Toad, or 
Frog, and Pipa. 
The other fpecies of the Rana are, 1. The common Frog. 2. The green and yel¬ 
low American Frog. 3. The large, brown American Frog. 4. The common 
Toad, or the great African grey Toad. 5. The little, brown Frog, with the extre¬ 
mities of the toes rounded. 6. The little Frog, with the joints of the toes protube¬ 
rant. j. The Rana, with the binder feet fubpalmated, and the pollex fhort and 
broad. 8. The round-toed Rana, with the body narrow behind. 9. The Rana, 
with an obtufe anus fpotted on the under part. 10. The large, green, and yellow 
Eaft Indian Frog. 
T E S T U D O. 
Teftudo has four legs, and it’s body is covered with a firm fhell. 
Tejludo unguibus acuminatis palmarum plantarum-' 
que quaternis . 
The Tejludo with , acuminated ungues^ four on the 
hinder , as well as fore feet . 
This grows to two feet, or more, in length, and to nearly as much in diameter in the 
fhell ; the head and hinder legs protended, it meafures confiderably more, but it never 
arrives at the enormous fize of fome of the other fpecies: the fhell is of a figure approach¬ 
ing fomewhat to oval, but hollowed in the form of a fegment of a circle at the upper 
extremity, and terminated in a fharp and even prickly point, when perfect, at the other: 
it’s edges towards the top are fmooth, but round; in the lower half, they are indented, 
and the ferratures are deep, and the points fharp and prickly : the whole fhell is divided 
into a number of irregular fpaces by feveral oblique and angulated lines, and is of a 
brown, with a tinge of reddifh in it, variegated with fpots and blotches of a dufky 
colour : the neck is oblong and thick ; the head large, and of a fomewhat oval form; 
the eyes are large, and the mouth formed, in fome meafure, like the beak of a bird of 
prey, the upper jaw falling over the other: the fore legs are longer than in any other 
known fpecies, and the hinder ones are robuft and broad; the whole is of the fame 
kind of brown colour with the fhell. 
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