British reptiles and batrachians . a be Fig. 18.—a, Before it leaves the egg. beak, or horny nippers, not the least like a frogs mouth, butadapted to the little creatures wants, enabling it to nip the softwater-plants which at this stage form its food, with doubtless theminute forms of life attached thereto. Cope, the Americannaturalist, tell us that the tadpoles of some frogs in the United

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