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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 ...he can scarcely be called a reliable one. The Common Tree Frog measures about two inches in length. The head is broad and blunt, the body is fat and squat. The skin is granular and has the appearance of being much too large for the frog. The tree frog is like the frogs in having teeth on the upper jaw. The eye is large; the ear is inconspicuous. The fingers and toes have their ends extended into broad disks that secrete a sticky substance on their lower surfaces. The toes are webbed as far as the disks; the fingers are webbed nearly onethird of their length. The male and female are more nearly alike than is usual among tree frogs. They may not differ in size or color, except that the throat of the male is dark. They can be distinguished from one another by the ears, which are always smaller in the female than in the male. The colour varies greatly at different times and in different conditions. (See Colour Plate VI) In bright light and high temper, ature it may be yellowish white with no markings. In a dark, moist or cool place, it may be a deep stone-grey or brown. Most often, perhaps, it is bright grey with dark markings. The most conspicuous of the markings are the two bands on each leg and each arm, and the irregular star on the upper part of the back. There is usually a conspicuous lighter spot just below the posterior half of the eye. This tree frog can always be distinguished from tree frogs resembling it by the vermiculations of brown and yellow on the concealed leg surfaces. (See Colour Plate VI.) However, we have not exhausted this tree frog's possible change of dress when we have considered all gradations between white and stone-grey or brown. There is almost as wide a range between white and green. When the background of colour is green, his cha...
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