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See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
TREE See also:FROG . Many different See also:groups of tailless Batrachians (see FROG) are adapted to arboreal See also:life, which is indicated by expansions of the tips of the fingers and toes, adhesive disks which assist the See also:animal in climbing on See also:vertical smooth surfaces. These disks do not See also:act as suckers, but adhere by rapid and intense pressure of the distal See also:phalanx and See also:special muscles upon the lowersurface, which is also provided with numerous glands producing a viscous secretion.
The best-known tree frog is the little Hyla arborea of See also:continental See also:Europe, rainette of the See also:French, Lauhfrosch of the Germans., often kept in See also:glass cylinders provided with a See also:ladder, which the frog is supposed to ascend or descend in prevision of the See also:weather. But See also:recent experiments conducted on scientific principles show that not much reliance can be placed on its prophecies. This frog is one of the smallest of See also:European Batrachians, rarely reaching 2 in. in length; its upper parts are smooth and shiny, normally of a See also:bright grass-See also:green, which may See also:change rapidly to yellow, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, See also:olive or See also:black; some specimens, deprived of the yellow pigment which contributes to See also:form the green See also:colour, are See also:sky-See also:blue or See also:turquoise blue; the See also:lower parts are granulate and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white.
The See also:family Hylidae, of which the European tree frog is the type, is closely related to the Bufonidae or true roads, being distinguished from them by the presence of See also:teeth in the upper See also:jaw and by the claw-like shape of the terminal phalanx of the digits. It is a large family, represented by about three See also:hundred See also:species, two hundred and fifty of which belong to the genus Hyla, distributed over Europe, temperate See also:Asia, See also:North See also:Africa, North and See also:South See also:America, Papua and See also:Australia. See also:Close See also:allies of Hyla are the Nototrema of Central and South America, in which the See also:female develops a dorsal broad pouch in which the See also:young undergo See also:part or the whole of their metamorphoses. The genus Phyllomedusa, also from Central and South America, are quadrumanous; the inner See also:finger and the toe being opposable to the others. and the See also:foot being very similar to the See also:hand. These frogs See also:deposit their spawn between the leaves of branches overhanging See also:water, into which the tadpoles drop and spend their larval life.
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