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MY DEAR SIR, if I remember well, I have already told you of the curious fauna which is to be met with between the leaves of our Bromeliæ. Lately I found, in a large Bromelia, a little frog (Hylodes?), bearing its eggs on the back. The eggs were very large, so that nine of them covered the whole back from the shoulders to the hind end, as you will see on the photograph accompanying this letter, Fig. I (the little animal was so restless that only after many fruitless trials a tolerable photograph could be obtained). The tadpoles, on emerging from the eggs, were already provided with hind-legs; and one of them lived with me about a fortnight, when the fore-legs also had made their appearance. During this time I saw no external branchiae, nor did I find any opening which might lead to internal branchiæ.
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MÜLLER, F. [News and Views]. Nature 19, 463–464 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019463a0
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