. Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. basket is to us as mucha problem as the association of a toad and a side-pocket, another East Anglian allusion equally classi-cal and inexplicable. The body of the toad is broad, thick, very muchswollen; the head large, with the crown much flat-tened ; muzzle obtuse and rounded; gape very wide;no teeth either on the jaws or the palate; thetongue entire, not notched ; over each eye a slightporous protuberance, a larger one on each sidebehind the ears; o
. Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. basket is to us as mucha problem as the association of a toad and a side-pocket, another East Anglian allusion equally classi-cal and inexplicable. The body of the toad is broad, thick, very muchswollen; the head large, with the crown much flat-tened ; muzzle obtuse and rounded; gape very wide;no teeth either on the jaws or the palate; thetongue entire, not notched ; over each eye a slightporous protuberance, a larger one on each sidebehind the ears; on the fore feet the third toe isthe longest ; the first and second are equal, andlonger than the fourth ; the hind legs scarcelylonger than the body, with five toes, and the rudi-ment of a sixth, webbed for half their length; the K 130 OUR REPTILES. fourth much the longest; the third a little longerthan the fifth; the skin both above and below iscovered with warts and pimples of various sizes;these are largest on the back, but more crowded onthe belly. Length of the body about three and a half larger in some parts of ^~- 131 THE NATTERJACK,
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