Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 85
ssessor of one of the strangest nurseries known to science. It livesin the dense trop-ical forests ofGuiana and Bra-zil, and is a truewater-haunter.But at the breed-ing season thefemale undergoes No. 8. The Surinam Toad. ^ CurioUS change of integument. The skin on her back grows pulpy,soft, and… … Some Strange Nurseries 66 Every egg is pressed separately into a bed of the softskin, which soon closes over it automatically, thusburying each in a little cell or niche, where it under-goes its further development. The tadpoles pass throughtheir larval stage within the cell, and then hop out,…
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