THE 
P I P A, 
O R 
TOAD of SURINAM. 
Generic Character, 
Body four-footed, naked, without tail. 
Lin. Syji. Nat. 
Specific Character, &c. 
FROG with the toes of the fore-feet quadrifid 
at their extremities; the hind-feet webbed 
and clawed. 
Seba. vol. l. t. 77. 
Mer. Sur. t. 59. 
The fpawn of the common frog is depolited in large 
heaps or clutters by the females in ftagnant fhallow 
waters and ditches in the early part of the.fpring ; it 
confifts of a congeries of black globular points, fur- 
rounded with a confiderable depth of gelatinous fub- 
ftance. The black points are no other than the real 
embryos of the future frogs ; in a few days they en¬ 
large, change to a fomewhat lighter colour, and break 
through the furrounding gluten, and fwim in Lhe wa¬ 
ter 
