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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia and Apoda (Frogs, Toads, and C cilians) Of Southern India: Illustrated by Thirteen Plates They may be defined as cold-blooded (poikilothermic) vertebrate animals, the majority of which have a pair of lungs situated below the digestive tract, which breathe by means of gills during some or the entire period of their existence, have three chambers (two auricles and a ventricle) to the heart, and two or no occipital condyles. Their limbs, if present, have not more than five fingers developed, and if, as is rare, they possess dorsal fins, these are merely folds of the integuments without those supporting cartilaginous rays which are found in fishes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."