. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. FIG. 247. — Section through skin of back of Pipa amarircuia, showing develop-ing embryos. Much enlarged. The Pipidae include the South American Pipa, note-worthy because of the habit which the female has ofbrooding its young in pits of the skin on her back(Figs. 24ti, 247).. FIG. 248. — Nodelphys, brooding tree-frog, female, from Venezuela. In thehinder part of the trunk the opening to the brood-pouch is seen. From a water-color painting at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. The Hy
. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. FIG. 247. — Section through skin of back of Pipa amarircuia, showing develop-ing embryos. Much enlarged. The Pipidae include the South American Pipa, note-worthy because of the habit which the female has ofbrooding its young in pits of the skin on her back(Figs. 24ti, 247).. FIG. 248. — Nodelphys, brooding tree-frog, female, from Venezuela. In thehinder part of the trunk the opening to the brood-pouch is seen. From a water-color painting at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. The Hylidae, or tree-toads, include various arborealspecies in which the ends of the fingers are modified for 264 ZOOLOGY holding on to objects by suction. Of these there are overone hundred and seventy species, especially abundantin tropical America. In one member of this family thefemale has a pouch on the back, opening in the hinderthird of the trunk (Fig. 248). In this the young arc
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