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Ran a ocellata. Bull Frog. Head not very broad, irides 
dufky red furrounded with a yellow ring: the auricles covered 
with a thin circular (kin: upper parts a dufky brown, thick let; 
with large irregular fhaped fpots; the whole blended with a yel- 
lowifh green: under jaw brown, mottled with white: belly white; 
four unwebbed toes to the fore feet, five webbed to the hind. 
Inhabits N. and S. America: is not a numerous fpecies: keeps 
in pairs: frequents ponds, flagnate water, and the mouth of rills5 
which it is fuppofed to purify; during winter remains torpid, un^ 
der mud; in the lpnng it begins to bellow the noife like that of an 
enraged bull, and fo loud as to be heard, in a fliil evening, the dif- 
tance of a mile: will go three yards at a leap: feeds on young 
ducks and goflins. It is edible, and affords as much meat as a 
pullet. 
