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Show 1903.] ON THE NURSING-HABITS OF A SOUTH-AMERICAN FROG. 115 Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., exhibited a specimen of Ceratohyla bubalus Espada, carrying eggs on its back (text-fig. 8), and made the following remarks :- " A very interesting addition has been made by Mr. Ockenden, a zoological collector in Peru, to our knowledge of the nursing- Text-fig. 8. Ceratohyla bubalus, $, carrying eggs on back. habits of Batrachians. The frog now exhibited is a female of the rare Ceratohyla bubalus, an inhabitant of the Andes of Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. It measures 63 millimetres from snout to 8* |