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Title: Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wolf, Herman Theodore, 1855-
Subjects: Aquariums Goldfish
Publisher: Philadelphia : Innes & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ller than the eye. A depressed ridge extendsfrom the eye to the flank; and the color is yellowish-brown above, darkeron the side, circular brown blotches on the back, and transverse markingson the legs. The Western Bullfrog is distributed on the Western Coastregions of the United States. Its head is broad, acute and roundedanteriorly, the body depressed and elongated, the eye moderately large,and the tympanum smaller than the eye. The glandular fold reaches fromthe eye to the hind leg. The color is greenish-yellow with golden reflec-tions spotted with black, and the sides and abdomen reddish-brown. Theunder side is dull, spotted greenish-yellow. The sexes of the frogs may be determined by the size of the tympanum,that ot the female being the smaller. Toads. There are several variefies of the common or hop-toadwhich will not be mentioned here. Toads are terrestial in habit, of dull,inconspicuous color and usually considered of uncouth repulsive form. 33 5 TERRARIA AND AQUA-TERRARJA *4f
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They exhude pun-gent acrid secretionsas a method of defense.They are extremely use-ful creatures devouringall kinds of insect vermin,^Jta snails and worms, theirfood being every creep-ing and flying thingsmall enough to swallow.One observer notes thata single toad ate 24 cat-erpillars in 10 minutesand another 35 celeryworms in three hours,and estimated that a goodfig. 239 sized toad will destroy 10,000 insects and worms in a single summer. The illustration of themetamorphosis of the common American Hoptoad, Bufo lentiginosis,(Shaw), Fig. 239, is taken from the Nature Study leaflets of the CornellUniversity College of Agriculture and shows the life history of the toadand the devastation wrought by its enemies, as of probably 1000 eggsand tadpoles but one or two toads survive to the adult stage. The toad is common to almost all parts of the United States. Itrapidly passes through all the stages of development from tadpole tomaturity, and its usefulness to the agriculturist should afford

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