. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 9 supralabial crest and an equally faint subnasal ridge; no true parietal crest present, although there is a bony prominence with elongate ridges on that region; snout prominent; lores concave; eyes sunk deep in large squarish sockets; upper lip slightly extended horizontally; tympanum elliptically erect, its horizontal diameter about one-half the width of the eye; parotoid gland large, descending behind the ear and ending below the level of the jaw, but not of very distinct outline posteriorly where it merges w
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 9 supralabial crest and an equally faint subnasal ridge; no true parietal crest present, although there is a bony prominence with elongate ridges on that region; snout prominent; lores concave; eyes sunk deep in large squarish sockets; upper lip slightly extended horizontally; tympanum elliptically erect, its horizontal diameter about one-half the width of the eye; parotoid gland large, descending behind the ear and ending below the level of the jaw, but not of very distinct outline posteriorly where it merges with the skin of the back, which is simi- larly covered with scattered pustulose conical warts on its anterior. Figure 1.—Bufo giintheri: Dorsal view. Type, No. 59081, from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Natural size. portion, the largest of these occurring in a group on each side of the midline, well behind the parotoids; first finger slightly shorter than second; toes about one-half webbed; subarticular tubercles conical, single; one large metacarpal and two well-developed metatarsal tubercles; a strong fold on tarsus, ending distally in an elongate tarsal ridge; no single large tibial gland in evidence, although many conical pustulose warts are present; posterior portion of back and upper parts of limbs glandular but not tubercular, presenting a sharp contrast to the skin of the forepart of the back and the tibia and the forearm, 22G849—41 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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