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BULLFROG 
The largest of our frogs, remarkable for its sonorous bass notes. 
Range: Eastern United States westward to Kansas, Photograph by 
Herbert Lang. 
The belief that warts are caused by handling toads has 
no foundation in fact. 
The toad is a valuable friend of the gardener, for it 
feeds upon a great variety of destructive insects. 
The life of our Salamanders is very similar to that 
of the frogs and toads. The eggs hatch out into tad- 
poles, then legs are developed, but the tail is not ab- 
sorbed. Unlike the frogs and toads, the Salamander 
keeps its tail throughout life, and in some kinds of Sala- 
manders which spend all of their time in the water, the 
gills are used throughout, life. Salamanders have vari- 
ous common names, some being called newts, others 
water-dogs or mud-puppies. The mud-eel and the Con- 
go “snake” of the Southern States, and the “hell-bender” 
of the Ohio valley and south are all Salamanders. The 
