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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 250. — Runa clanutano, green frog. Nat. size. Photo, of living animal by W. H. C. P. ponds, hatch out in May, and metamorphose about amonth later. The Ranidae are almost confined to the Northern Hemi-sphere and the East Indies. In the northern United Statesthere are some eight species, of which the commonest are:the leopard-frog, of green color, with irregular blackblotches edged with whitish ; the pickerel-frog, lightbrown, with two rows of oblong square brown blotches JBufo Icntiyinosus. - Fig. 249. 266 ZOOLOGY on the back ; the wood-frog, living in damp woods, palereddish brown, with a brown band on the side of the head;the green frog, of uniform bright green to brown color,with numerous small dark spots, and with glandular folds(Fig. 250) ; and the bull-frog, of great size, green, withsmall faint spots on the back. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XVII KEY TO THE ORDERS OF AMPHIBIA «i. Appendages and tail lacking; body worm-like; skin furrowed transversely .... GymnopMona a2. Appendage

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