THE 
PARADOXICAL FROG. 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, naked, without tail. 
Specific Character , QSc. 
FROG with the thighs ftreaked in an oblique 
direction behind. 
The TADPOLE. 
FROG FISH of Surinam. 
Edw. Phil, Tran/:\ v. 51. p. 653 .pi. 15. 
Edw. Mem. p. 30. pi. 2. 
Few perhaps are unacquainted with the firft form 
under which the common Frog appears, after its ex- 
clufion from the ovum or fpawn; viz. that of a 
Tadpole, furnilhed with a long, flat, finny tail, and 
with ramified branchial fins on each fide the head, 
which are obliterated when the animal has acquired 
its complete or perfedt form; the tail ftill remaining 
fome time longer. The tadpole of the frog called 
by Linnaeus rana paradoxa, is of fo large a fize that 
it has been confidered as a being of an ambiguous 
or mixed nature, and has been named the frog-fifh; 
the 
