The Batrachian Reptiles include the frogs and toads.
The bird's grace is batrachian rather than avian, while the odor of its body resembles that of no bird untouched by dissolution.
A half-dozen ants came up in the same instrument, but I evaded them and tied up the tormented batrachian in my handkerchief.
Let the earth, or rather its silicious and other decaying rocks, bring forth these batrachian forms.
This appeared and flourished throughout the Devonian period, if not anterior to it, and long before the appearance of batrachian reptiles and other low air-breathing forms of life.
The most remarkable feature in thisBatrachian is its manner of reproduction.
Instead of being the size of a finger, as is the case with those indigenous to Europe, this Batrachian is four feet and a half in length, and weighs fifty pounds.
The batrachian does not try to get out, but sits motionless until he is boiled.
The answer to the stroking is so certain that, as suggested by Goltz, a chorus of brainless frogs might be obtained whose batrachian voices would delight the nerves of old Aristophanes with a triumphal burst of Brekekekéx!
We may point out at the same time the very marked resemblance in form and coloration between the Uropeltid Melanophidium bilineatum, and the Apodal Batrachian Ichthyophis glutinosus, both occurring together in Southern India.
The young feed on worms and batrachian larvae, in addition to very small frogs and toads.
Footnote 56: Since this was written, the bones of many Batrachian reptiles have been found in the Carboniferous, both in Europe and America.
The batrachian is not indispensable; a Mole will serve as well or even better.
He exploits the batrachian or the reptile with no less animation.
The animal which made them is supposed to have been allied to a Saurian, rather than to a Batrachian or Chelonian; but more information is required before so difficult a point can be decided.
It is well known that a single female of the Batrachiantribe ejects annually an astonishing quantity of spawn.
Professor Owen, who stands at the head of comparative anatomy in the present day, has expressed his belief that this last animal was the same batrachian of which he has found fragments in the new red sandstone of Warwickshire.
Nothing can be more remarkable than the apparently sudden and simultaneous incoming of the batrachian reptiles in the Coal-formation.
Aph-Lin told me this fable while I gazed on the three Batrachian portraits.
He put it to her at last, standing squarely before her, his batrachian sallowness unpleasantly flushed, and primitive man looking out of the eyes from which a frock-coated gentleman usually pined at her.
The foremost was Claud Walsingham Popple; and above his shoulder shone the batrachian countenance of Peter Van Degen.
The modes of dispersal of frogs and toads, and, in truth, of the whole Batrachian class, are matters of which we are to a great extent ignorant.
The insular and isolated conditions have been preserved during a period sufficiently extended for the development of a peculiar Batrachian fauna.
Smith, "On Oviposition and Nursing in the Batrachian genus Dendrobates," Amer.
If a division of the world according to its batrachian faunae were to be attempted, it would differ very considerably from that which would answer for the principal groups of reptiles, the lizards especially.
Sometimes these scales assumed the importance of scutes and formed a carapace, as in the "batrachian armadillo" discovered by E.
No batrachian is known to possess an ossified azygous supra-occipital.
Its body is less adaptively modified and shows the essentially fish-like character of the batrachian structure.
For an example of the general long-tailed or Urodelous type of batrachian any salamander or newt occurring in the vicinity of the school may be used.
The brain in size and complexity is plainly superior to the batrachian brain and resembles quite closely that of birds.
In the organization of the batrachianbody the usual vertebrate characters appear, the body-organs being arranged with reference to a supporting and protecting internal bony skeleton.
Further away, on the north, lies the Pillar mountain, with its great buttress of rock jutting out into Ennerdale.
The blinds were down in all of the windows and it had a deserted appearance.
The officers' right hands were on the handles of their automatics and revolvers.
Did this Batrachian really possess a rational soul, with sentiments of piety and justice, or only a wonderfully constructive faculty of imitation?
On the other hand, it was maintained that the fact of my being a Batrachian had no bearing on my moral rights, and ought not to have upon my social and legal rights.
Pomel as appertaining to the Lower Miocene fauna of the Limagne and Velay falls little short of a hundred, and with them are associated some large crocodiles and tortoises, and some Ophidian and Batrachian reptiles.
It appeared that they were of the Batrachian order, and of gigantic dimensions in comparison with any representatives of that order now living.
Batrachian wisdom Disdains the rule of fogeydom and quizdom, And Frogs as soon would take to bibs and corals, As ask a "King who might inspect their morals" From Jupiter.
The unlicked cubs of the batrachian family are known (irrespective of sex) as Pollywogs, and are the meanest of all the reptile race except the radical Scaliwags.
Although the batrachian is of the genus bufo, he is by no means a buffo genius.
After we had been vainly puzzling with these batrachian lovers for some time, the Professor revealed his secret.
The frogs that jump are George in the third horizontal row; Chang, the artful-looking batrachian at the end of the fourth row; and Wilhelmina, the fair creature in the seventh row.
The batrachiananimals are here all grouped in one case (26).
The first three wall cases are devoted to the batrachian or Frog fossils; some of the chelonian or Tortoise fossils; and the fossil crocodiles.
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