. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 164 THE GREEN TREE-FROG. each eyelid is a group of horny tubercles, so that the creature presents a most remarkable appearance. Its length is about three inches. Our last example of these creatures is the large Agua Toad of America (Bufo agua). This large species digs holes in the ground, and resides therein. It is one of the noisiest of its tribe, uttering a loud snoring kind of bellow by night and sometimes by day, and being so fond of its own voice that even if taken captive it begins
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 164 THE GREEN TREE-FROG. each eyelid is a group of horny tubercles, so that the creature presents a most remarkable appearance. Its length is about three inches. Our last example of these creatures is the large Agua Toad of America (Bufo agua). This large species digs holes in the ground, and resides therein. It is one of the noisiest of its tribe, uttering a loud snoring kind of bellow by night and sometimes by day, and being so fond of its own voice that even if taken captive it begins its croak as soon as it is placed on the ground. It is very voracious, and as it is thought to devour rats, has been imported in large numbers from Barbadoes into Jamaica, in order to keep down the swarm of rats that devastate the plantations. When these creatures were first set loose in their new home, they began to croak with such unanimous good-will that they frightened the inhabitants sadly, and caused many anxious householders to sit up all night. This Toad grows to a great size, often obtaining a lengtli of seven inches, and nearly the same measurement in breadth. It may he recognized by the great enlargementof the bone over the eyes, and the enormous dimensions of the glands behind the head. Its color is extremely variable. We now come to the Tree-Frogs, or Tree-Toads, so called from their habits of climbing trees, and attaching themselves to the branches or leaves by means of certain discs on the toes, like those of the geckos. In the first family the toes are webbed, and the processes of the vertebrje are cylindrical. A good example will be found in the Savan- nah Cricket Frog of America. Tills species is very common in its own country, and is found throughout a very large range of territories, specimens having been taken from several Northern and Southern States of America. It is a light, merry little animal, uttering its cricket-like chii'p with continual reiteratio
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