Australian Frogs

Pp. xii, 220; 48 color photos, 64 black-and-white text-photos and line-drawings. Publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in white on the spine, sm 4to. This work presents a detailed review of the frogs of Australia with tables cataloging the form of the frog spawn in each genus. The volume is inscribed by the author, Michael Tyler, on the title page. The 13 chapters cover: Origins; An Environment for Frogs; The Frog Fauna; Nomenclature and Classification; Food and Feeding; Communication and Courtship; Development; Life in Arid Areas; Life Above the Ground; The Cane Toad; The Sandhill Frog; Gastric Brooding Frogs; and Frogs as Environmental Monitoring Organisms. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Neat underlining on 126 pages.