The common frog / by St. George Mivart.

  • Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The common frog / by St. George Mivart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    genera Kaloiila of India, and Brachymeriis of South Africa. The female of a peculiar American Tree-Frog {Nototrema mars7ipiatiim') has a pouch extending over the whole of the back and opening, posteriorly. Fig. 10.—The female of Nototrema marsuMatnm, with the pouch partly cut open (alter Gunther). f 3 v Into this the eggs are introduced for shelter and protection. A dorsal pouch also exists in the allied American genus, Opisthodelphys. An American spe- cies of Hylodes has the habit of laying its eggs in trees singly in the axils of leaves, and the only water they can obtain is the drop or two which may from time to time be there retained. A still more remarkable mode of protectino the egg is developed by the Great Toad of tropical America {Pipa americand). In this case the skin