. The story of the amphibians and the reptiles. Amphibians; Reptiles. VIVIPAROUS AMPHIBIANS 57 lays there is usually a drought So she places her eggs on limbs of trees above dried-up pools. Here they dry up also and are preserved, and when the rains finally come they are washed off and hatch in the pool below. Other spe- cies deposit them on the bottoms of dried pools. Some toads have learned how to get along without wa- ter at any time. In the island of Gua- deloupe, where marshes are not found, a little toad places its eggs under damp leaves, and the whole tad- pole-state is run within the e
. The story of the amphibians and the reptiles. Amphibians; Reptiles. VIVIPAROUS AMPHIBIANS 57 lays there is usually a drought So she places her eggs on limbs of trees above dried-up pools. Here they dry up also and are preserved, and when the rains finally come they are washed off and hatch in the pool below. Other spe- cies deposit them on the bottoms of dried pools. Some toads have learned how to get along without wa- ter at any time. In the island of Gua- deloupe, where marshes are not found, a little toad places its eggs under damp leaves, and the whole tad- pole-state is run within the egg, and the young come forth perfect. There are various stages of taking care of the tad- poles when they form, without allowing them to re- main in the water. It is well known that the female Surinam toad has a pitted skin at the breeding season, and that the male takes up the eggs and with his fore paws presses them into these pits. Here they swell, after the female enters the water, till each fills its cell, when a covering grows over them and remains till they. Fig. 19.—Tree-frog of Dutch Guiana {Sy- lodes liniatus), with tadpoles attached to her back. They do not fall oflf even when she leaps rapidly 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 Baskett, James Newton, 1849-; Ditmars, Raymond Lee, 1876-1942. joint author. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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