General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . onds is the voice of the graytree frogs. Each species of frog and toadhas a distinctive voice. In calling, thethroat of many species is blown out intoa balloon-like sac and acts as a resonating [78] organ. 1he group represents a small sec-tion of a swamp in southern New Eng-land during early May. Gila Monsters. The Gila Monster iswell known as the only poisonous lizardin the world. In the group, there are twospecies of Gila Monster, Heloderma sus-pectum of southwestern United Statesand horridum of Mexico. The gro
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . onds is the voice of the graytree frogs. Each species of frog and toadhas a distinctive voice. In calling, thethroat of many species is blown out intoa balloon-like sac and acts as a resonating [78] organ. 1he group represents a small sec-tion of a swamp in southern New Eng-land during early May. Gila Monsters. The Gila Monster iswell known as the only poisonous lizardin the world. In the group, there are twospecies of Gila Monster, Heloderma sus-pectum of southwestern United Statesand horridum of Mexico. The group represents a small sectionof one of the canyons of the CatalinaMountains, Arizona. The snake glidingover the rocks is the Sonoran Racer, Mas-ticophis semilineatus. The desert tortoise,Gopherus agassizii, illustrated below, isseeking a hiding place for the night. Amphibia and Reptiles of New YorkState. An exhibit showing the speciesfound within the State of New York maybe seen in the corridor of the RooseveltMemorial on the first floor. (Index Plan,p. 16, Floor I, Hall 12a).. DETAIL OF A GROUP SHOWING THE AMPHIBIANS OF A NEW ENGLAND MARSHLAND IN EARLY SPRING DESERT TORTOISE (Gopherus agassizii). A detail from the Gila Monster Group, depicting thereptilian fauna of one of the Arizona canyons Ott *i
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