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Show Peculiar Japanese Frog. The Japanese frog is a creature measuring between fifteen and twenty-five twenty-five inches. The skin of its back is pale blue and by night looks dark green or olive brown. The frog remains re-mains motionless during -" e day, with eyes sheltered from the light and with belly up, clinging to its support by adhesive ad-hesive cushions and by its belly, which is provided with a sticky covering, and it is hardly distinguishable from the objects that surround it. At nightfall night-fall it begins its hunt for the mammoth mam-moth crickets on which it feeds, making ma-king leaps covering seven feet of ground. Harper's Weekly. |