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:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 248. — Nodelphys, brooding tree-frog, female, from Venezuela. In thehinder part of the trunk the opening to the brood-pouch is seen. From a water-color painting at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. The Hylidae, or tree-toads, include various arborealspecies in which the ends of the fingers are modified for 264 ZOOLOGY holding on to objects by suction. Of these there are overone hundred and seventy species, especially abundantin tropical America. In one member of this family thefemale has a pouch on the back, opening in the hinderthird of the trunk (Fig. 248). In this the young arc Text Appearing After Image: FKJ. 2-49. — J>t(fo lentlginosus, the American toad. Photo, of living animal, resting on the ground, by W. H. C. P. brooded. The most common tree-toad of the northernUnited States extends from Canada to Florida, and westto Kansas. It is variable in color, being green or brown,according to the color of the background, leaf, or bark,on which it is resting. It has a loud, coarse trill, often THE NEWT AND ITS ALLIED erroneously regarded as a weather sign. The eggs are j t~} CJ CJ