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ANIMAL CURIOSITIES 
The golden tree-frog from Australia is a 
very handsome kind, its bright green skin 
being enriched with golden-bronze spots and 
streaks. It is stated that the Australian 
aborigines, when pressed by hunger, capture 
these frogs at night-time with the aid of a 
torch, and utilize them as food. 
Also hailing from Australia is White’s tree- 
frog, a somewhat large species measuring 
more than four inches in length. Its bright 
green skin is extremely smooth and shiny, 
looking almost like wax, or as if it had been 
varnished. 
The tips of its fingers and toes are furnished 
with expanded disks, by means of which 
the creature is able to adhere to a smooth 
surface such as glass, the adhesion being 
effected by strong muscular pressure, aided 
by a sticky secretion that exudes from the 
disks. 
The under surface of the body is also of an 
adhesive nature, the smooth and shiny skin 
clinging to the glass and retaining its hold 
by suction. 
The habits of a small species of tree-frog 
discovered in Brazil by Dr. Goeldi are of 
unusual interest, for the female, which breeds 
in the water that has accumulated in the cup¬ 
like formations at the junction of the branches 
