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The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. [Nov. 
Part II .— For Declination South . 
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NATURAL-HISTORY NOTES. 
On the Discovery of a Frog in New Zealand,* by Arthur Saunders 
Thomson, M.D., Surgeon, 58th Regiment. 
In the “ Fauna of New Zealand,” compiled by J. E. Gray, Esq., of the 
British Museum, and appended to Dieffenbach’s Travels in New Zealand, 
published in 1842, it is stated, on the authority of Mr. Polack, that “ toads 
and frogs are not uncommon, especially near the mountain districts, but he 
believes they do not differ from the species in Europe.” With this remark 
before his eyes Dieffenbach states, “they have never been seen by me,” 
and he doubts their existence in New Zealand. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, 
who has been long resident as a missionary in the country, in his Leaf 
from the Natural History of New Zealand (1848), makes no mention of frogs. 
Dr. Sinclair, Colonial Secretary, who has contributed so much to the fauna 
of New Zealand, informs me that he never saw or heard of a frog in the 
country. I have asked missionaries who have been upwards of twenty years 
in different parts of the Island, and natives who have resided all their 
lives in the country, and all of them declare that they never even saw a rog 
or heard the croak of one ; and from these circumstances I, with many 
others, believed that frogs did not exist in New Zealand. 
In October, 1852, indications of gold were found around the harbour 
of Coromandel, in the gulf of Hauraki or Firth of Thames. In November 
I visited the diggings, and procured the frog which is herewith sent.f 
* Reprinted from the Edinburgh Neiv Philosophical Journal, vol. 55, pp. 66-69, 1853. 
The frog referred to is Liopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger.— Ed. 
f This specimen is now in the possession of James Thomson, Esq., of Glendoman. 
