. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE BULLFROG 109 pical America, while the rest inhabit the northern portion of the Old World. Thus the order of newts is an order almost entirely confined to the northern hemisphere, whence a few struggle southward along the eastern Asiatic mountains or the Andes. China and Japan being the part of Asia nearest North America, are, as might be expected, rather rich in the number of their species. But it is not merely or mainly by the numbers of species that it contains that North America is thus Fig. 28.. THE AMPHIUMA. distinguished. The

. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE BULLFROG 109 pical America, while the rest inhabit the northern portion of the Old World. Thus the order of newts is an order almost entirely confined to the northern hemisphere, whence a few struggle southward along the eastern Asiatic mountains or the Andes. China and Japan being the part of Asia nearest North America, are, as might be expected, rather rich in the number of their species. But it is not merely or mainly by the numbers of species that it contains that North America is thus Fig. 28.. THE AMPHIUMA. distinguished. The Stock Photo
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. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE BULLFROG 109 pical America, while the rest inhabit the northern portion of the Old World. Thus the order of newts is an order almost entirely confined to the northern hemisphere, whence a few struggle southward along the eastern Asiatic mountains or the Andes. China and Japan being the part of Asia nearest North America, are, as might be expected, rather rich in the number of their species. But it is not merely or mainly by the numbers of species that it contains that North America is thus Fig. 28.. THE AMPHIUMA. distinguished. The singular interest of some of the forms peculiar to it is even yet more striking. The absolutely largest species is, however, found in Japan, where it sometimes attains the length of six feet. A closely allied species is found in northern China, and during the tertiary period one also inhabited Europe. Its remains were discovered in the early days of geolo- gical science, and were taken to be the skeleton of a child, a victim of Noah's deluge. A much smaller representa- tion of the Japanese giant eft is found in all the tribu- taries of the Mississippi and the streams of Louisiana, as well as in North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. Boston, Little, Brown and Company