. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 358 A'ATUMAL EISTUIiT. is fixed. It jumps and swims nearly as well as the True Frogs, and lias a warty body witli a dirty gi-een tint above, and the belly fiery red and spotted with blue. It is called the Fire-bellied Toad, and has a fine sonorous voice, and the cry is oiwk, ouvk.* The larvae are large; it is a dweller in marshes, and is an European kind. The genus Pelobates is the last of this family to be noticed, and it has species in France. They are fine Frogs, having the tongue free behind, but scarcely notched. They have no tympanum
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 358 A'ATUMAL EISTUIiT. is fixed. It jumps and swims nearly as well as the True Frogs, and lias a warty body witli a dirty gi-een tint above, and the belly fiery red and spotted with blue. It is called the Fire-bellied Toad, and has a fine sonorous voice, and the cry is oiwk, ouvk.* The larvae are large; it is a dweller in marshes, and is an European kind. The genus Pelobates is the last of this family to be noticed, and it has species in France. They are fine Frogs, having the tongue free behind, but scarcely notched. They have no tympanum, and the arms have a special gland and the liind feet a sharp swelling. The web is complete in the FliiE-HELLIED FKOG. One is grey-brown in colour,f smelLs like onions, and jumps like a Frog, and makes holes and burrows in the mud v/ith its hind limbs. It has a loud cry of ouk, and the metamorphosis of the very large Tadpoles lasts a long time. The Globose Cacopus Frog is worthy of its name, and is found in the Madras Presidency. The head is very short, and so are the limbs, and the mouth is small; the body is bulged out in a globular form, and the limbs and toes are short and slightly webbed. It has a small eye with a round pupil, and the skin is smooth, brown, and black on the tail. They have a circular tongue. Dr. Giinther states that he has seen two specimens of tliLs species, one thirteen lines long, and a larger thirty-four lines long, which was a female. " The little one is distended with fluid in an extraordinary manner, so that the body has the shape of a ball, from which the head and limbs project. The fluid is con- tained in the abdominal cavity. The larger individual is distended in a similar way, but this is caused by an extraordinary development of the ovaria (or egg-producing structures). These organs become so large that, not having room in the cavity of the body, they extend right across the back, so that the animal is completely surrounded by a ma
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