. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 58. —Frogs Egg. Fig. 59. — FrogsEgg. 58 and 59) to flying squirrel. Its toes are webbed, forming perfect para-chutes. With these the toad leaps from tree to tree withperfect ease, swooping downward, rising to alight again, repeating thisas often asan enemy ap-pears. The habitsof frogs andtoads are ex-tremely inter-esting, andtheir development from the egg ( adult has been referred to. The skeleton (Fig. 60)shows the long legs and enormously developed fingers, which are booms forthe sail-like webs bywhich the frog swims,and of all the
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 58. —Frogs Egg. Fig. 59. — FrogsEgg. 58 and 59) to flying squirrel. Its toes are webbed, forming perfect para-chutes. With these the toad leaps from tree to tree withperfect ease, swooping downward, rising to alight again, repeating thisas often asan enemy ap-pears. The habitsof frogs andtoads are ex-tremely inter-esting, andtheir development from the egg ( adult has been referred to. The skeleton (Fig. 60)shows the long legs and enormously developed fingers, which are booms forthe sail-like webs bywhich the frog swims,and of all the skele-tons it is apparentlythe simplest. In collecting theseanimals—which is aneasy matter — and instudying their habits,one is impressed bythe fact that the mostremarkable feature about them is their method of car-ing for their eggs and young. The little Alytes ofEurope strings the eggs and winds them about its body,and so protects them until the young appear. An
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