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may be used as articles of diet. Frequently only the hams are taken, but 
in some cases the animal is captured, killed, the viscera removed, 
and the body fried in eggs and bread crumbs. They are then said to be 
delicious, and it is reported that they are much used in this manner in 
certain places. 
“ORDER URODELA. TAILED AMPHIBIANS. 
Caudata, LEUCKART. 
Body elongated, naked or without exoskeletal plates; tail compressed or cylindrical, 
persistent throughout life; feet usually two pairs, rarely only one; radius and ulna, as 
well as tibia and fibula, not united into a single piece ; external opening of the cloaca 
a longitudinal slit. 
Gills persistent throughout life. 5 : : : : PERENNIBRANCHIATA, 
Gills caducous. 5 : é 6 : ; 5 : j CADUCIBRANCHIATA. 
SUB-ORDER PERENNIBRANCHIATA. 
Amphipneusta, OPPEL. 
Proteides, LEUCKART, HARLAN, MULLER, DUMERIL and BIBRON. 
Phanerobranches, DUMERIL and BIBRON. 
Pseudophydiens, DEBLAINVILLE. 
Sirenidew, TENNEY. 
Ichtyoides, LATREILLE. 
Branchie persistent; prefrontal, nasal and maxillary bones wantivg; premaxille not 
anchylosed together ; pterygoid absent or united with the palatines; vertebra amphi- 
cmlous; carpus and tarsus cartilaginous, the latter sometimes absent; eyes without lids, 
in some cases surrounded by circular ring resembling a lid. 
Pelvic arch and limbs wanting; extralimital. . . 6 . LRACHYSTOMIDZ, 
Pelvic arch and limbs present. : : “ : : : 6 : PROTEIDZ, 
DAMEDY PROTEIDA. THE MUD BUPPIES: 
Skull elongated ; parasphenoid edentulous; vomer with teeth along its antorior mar- 
gin; premaxille and dentaries dentigerous ; pterygoid present and anchylosed with the 
palatines ; occipital condyles sessile ; first two ceratohyals connate ; branch, branchial 
apertures, and three pairs of arches persistent; eyelids wanting; pelvic and pectoral 
arches and limbs developed ; anterior digits three or four, fourth finger, or in this case 
the third, the first being absent, with a single phalanx. 
* Toes, two or three on each foot; trank very much elongated ; extralimital. 
PROTEUS. 
* Toes, four on each foot; trunk, short and thick. . : ; MENOBRANCHUS. 
*The classification and descriptions of this order are taken from the author’s printed 
thesis on the Urodela and Cacilia, to which any persons desiring information on extra- 
limital species may refer. 
