NATIONAL MUSEUM OF VICTORIA 
THE 
HORNED FROG, 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, naked, without tail. 
Lin. Syjl. Nat. 
Specific Character. 
FROG with horned eyelids. 
Should inquiry be made, which is the ugliefi: 
animal yet known to exift ? the creature here repre- 
fented might perhaps with juftice be propofed as an 
anfwer: an animal of fuch prodigious deformity as even 
to exceed in this refpedt the Surinam toad, or Rana 
Pipa. What gives an afpedt fo peculiarly forbidding 
to the prefent fpecies is the horned appearance of the 
front, which is caufed by a fharp-pointed elongation of 
the upper part of each eyelid into a callous procefs 
refembling a horn : to this may be added the exceffive 
width of the mouth, which exceeds that of every other 
known fpecies of Rana. This animal is extremely 
rare, and is a native of fome parts of North America. 
It is principally found in Virginia. Its general colour 
is 
