Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2Grey, George
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Grey, George
Natural history -- Australia -- Western Australia; Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration
Lead-coloured (in spirits) with white spots; beneath dirty white, with
some small white warts at the angle of the mouth; legs smooth.
Inhabits Western Australia.
103. Hyla Adelaidensis, Gray, t. 8 f. 2.
Slender; fore-toes quite free, hinder toes webbed to the last joint; (in
spirits) gray-blue, with a series of small oblong tubercles; the sides
purple-brown with a white streak from the underside of the eyes to the
shoulders; sides of the belly and region of the vent purplish, with small
white spots; the hinder side of the thighs purple-brown, with three large
oblong white spots; belly and under side of thighs granular; chin white,
brownish dotted; palatine teeth in two roundish groups between the
internal nostrils.
Inhabits Western Australia.
104. Hyla binoculata, Gray, t. 8, f. 1.
Slender; fore-toes quite free; hinder toes webbed to the last joint.
Grayish white (in spirits) with a series of very small, indistinct,
oblong tubercles, with a dark streak from the nostrils to the shoulder,
enclosing the eyes, and a white streak below it from the underside of the
eye; sides purplish, with small white spots; back of the thighs purple,
with two yellow spots; belly and underside of thighs whitish, granular.
Var. 1. Back of thighs with one or two additional yellow spots.
Var. 2. Back bluish gray; back of the thighs with six or seven small
subequal yellow spots.
Inhabits Western Australia.
UPEROLEIA, Gray.
Head large; palate quite toothless; upper jaw with small close teeth;
tympanum hid under the skin; toes of the fore and hind feet elongate,
slender, quite free; ankle with a roundish external and a small conical
inner tubercle; tongue small, oblong, roundish, and entire behind.
This genus is most nearly allied to Leiuperus of Messieurs Dumeril and
Bibron, with which it agrees in having no teeth on the palate, but it
differs from it in the tympanum being quite hid.
The internal nostrils are some distance in front of the cross-ridge on
which the palatine teeth are generally placed.
105. Uperoleia marmorata.
Black and green marbled, leaving a triangular greenish spot on the
forehead, beneath lead colour.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Dr. Tschudi has formed a genus under the name of Crinia, which appears by
his characters to be nearly related to the above; but Messieurs Dumeril
and Bibron (Erp. Gen. 8 416) observe that the specimens he described have
two very small groups of teeth on the vomer.
107. Breviceps gouldii, t. 1 f. 1.
Smooth, with a few scattered low tubercles; gray-brown (in spirits),
yellowish beneath.
Inhabits Western Australia.
This animal has all the external appearance and character, as far as they
are given in Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron's work, of the Breviceps
gibbosus of the Cape of Good Hope, except that it has not the yellow
dorsal band, and the back is scarcely to be designated as granular. It is
the second species of the genus, and only the second Toad found in
Australia.
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APPENDIX F.
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