On the frogs collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by F.F. Laidlaw.

  • Frank Fortescue Laidlaw
Date:
1900
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Credit: On the frogs collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by F.F. Laidlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    have in some cases carmine-coloured spots, which are symmetrical in one Callula (see Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 31). Some species appear to be very careless of the welfare of their vouiig ; it is very usual to find spawn or tadpoles in little puddles left after heavy rain which must dry up long before the wretched tadpoles can escape from them. Progs occur plentifully up to a height of at least 5000 feet above sea-level. At about this height I found several suiall pools, only a few^ feet across, in which there were numbers of tadpoles. As to localities, beginning on the east coast, Patalung was the most northerly district in which collections were made, mostly near Singora, a large town at the mouth of the Tale-sap or Inland Sea which lies on the east coast of the northern half of the Peninsula. The next locality is Patani, a town on the east coast just below the narrowest part of the Peninsula. Prom here Mr. Annan- dale with the rest of the party travelled inland to Biserat, a village in a small state called Jalor; near this village is a hill about 3000 feet in height called Bukit Besar (Great Hill). Prom Biserat the party travelled south overland through Jalor, Legeh, and Paman, and reached the Kelantan Itiver ; then, passing up the Lebeh Eiver, they stayed for some time at Kwala Aring, a small village at a point where the Aring Eiver runs into the Lebeh. At this point I joined the party, which next moved down to Khota Bharu, the capital town of the state of Kelantan. After a short stay here we went by steamer to Tringganu, a large town some 60 miles farther down the east coast. Prom here we went back to Singapore, then to Penang, and thence reached Ulu Selama, a district about the head- waters of the Selama Eiver, a tributary of the Krian Eiver which runs between Kedah and Perak. Gunong Inas is the mountain in which the Selama Eiver rises. I have to acknowledge the kindly interest displayed by Mr. G. A. Boulenger in our collections and to thank him for much assistance in describing them. Order ECAUDATA. Pam. Eanid^. OxYGLOSSUS LIMA (Gravenh.). O^yglossus lima, Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 5; id. Eept. & Batr. of British India, p. 436. Three specimens from near Biserat in Jalor. OxYGLOSsus L^vis Glint her. Oxyglossus lavis, Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 6; id. P. Z. S. 1897, p. 288 (tadpole); id. Eept. & Batr. of British India, p. 437; S. S. Plower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 886. Several examples w’ere collected by Mr. Annandale in the same locality as the last species. Tw^o of them have very warty skin, and a third is by no means smooth. P]