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Identifier: britishreptilesb00hopl (find matches)
Title: British reptiles and batrachians
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hopley, Catherine Cooper
Subjects: Reptiles -- Great Britain Amphibians -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : S. Sonnenschein, Lowrey
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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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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wbD O u <—•o ma ■—<oa. ■a H -a rf eju 43 REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS. States are excellent preparateurs of skeletons, eating such fleshof small dead animals as they can masticate with their feeblehorny jaws. They have furnished the most delicate specimensin perfect preservation (as was long ago demonstrated by the lateProfessor Baird, of the National Museum at Washington, wheresome of them are to be seen). In fig. c the eye begins to appear from under the skin at A, andthe gills K, are beginning to disappear. On the previous page (fig. 19) we perceive considerable progress.In fig. a the eye is larger, the mouth has changed its form, thetail is well developed, and the hind limbs are sprouting, andin fig. b are already furnished with feet. Figure c has a truefrog-like look, its tail is shrinking, its limbs now assist its swim-ming. A still further advance is seen in fig. d, and a perfect littlefrog, much larger than the natural size, sitting on the groundin fig

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