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SURINAM TOAD (Pipa americana), an aglossal tailless Batrachian, rendered famous by its mode of reproduction, first observed in 1710 by the Dutch anatomist F. Ruisch. It inhabits South America east of the Andes and north of the Amazons, and is thoroughly aquati ...

... nt armadillo (Priodon gigas), measuring nearly a yard long, from the forests of Surinam and Brazil; while one of the smallest is Dasypus minutus, a near ally of the larger D. sexcinctus. The peba ( Tatusia noremcincta) represents a group with a large number of ...

... most interesting and the best known of these singular fishes is the Gymnotus or Surinam eel. Humboldt gives a very graphic account of the combats which are carried on in Sputh America between the gymnoti and the wild horses in the vicinity of Calabozo. Cavendi ...

... mice and bats. Jaguars occasionally stray into Arizona from Mexico. Lizards and toads are conspicuous in the more desert areas. Snakes are not numerous. The Gila-monster, tarantula, the scorpion and thelyphonus, scolopender and julus occur in some localities i ...

... .\i. pp. 48-54, pi. 3) a good description and fair figure of it, calling it the Surinamische Sonnenreyger," Ardea helias, the first author to notice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the name of " Sonnenvogel," was published at Amsterdam in 1759 ...

... s; the Louisiana mud-turtle, in the coast marshes. The horned lizard, or horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum; P. hernandesi; P. modestum). is the most common of Texas lizards, except in the western counties where the Texas rock lizards (Sceloporus torguatus; S. c ...