RIVER GARDENS; 
means for displaying his gymnastic skill he will 
exhibit some very pretty antics; sometimes suspend¬ 
ing himself by one foot from a lateral branch, or 
holding on to four as distant twigs as possible by 
each of his globule-tipped feet. These little globules 
at the extremity of each toe are the additions to his 
structure which make him a climber, while his 
relative, the common Marsh Frog, unfurnished with 
these appendages, is compelled to remain a traveller 
on level ground; his power of leaping, however, 
being, as is well known, very remarkable. 
The colouring of the Climbing Frog is very pleas¬ 
ing. His full, soft green—not varnished, as in the 
common Frog, hut only having what painters term an 
egg-shell gloss—is a very beautiful colour, something 
like that of the gem termed aquamarine, if it were 
hut opaque, like the turquoise, instead of being 
semi-transparent. His sides are ornamented with a 
very delicate lateral streak of white, which seems 
like a line of demarcation between the upper and 
nether portions of the body; and immediately 
under it is a narrow hand of deep ruddy brown, 
which gives it a very bright effect; the brown 
shading suddenly off to grey, which eventually 
fades into a porcelain white beneath. This ele¬ 
gant little creature has, in fact, more the ap- 
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