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Largest normal tadpole, 2.7 cm. long. body, 1.0 " tail, 1.7 " Largest thyroid-fed tadpole, 1.1 cm. long. body, 0.5 " tail, 0.6 " May 10. A great number of the thyroid-fed dead and the rest dying, lying at the bottom motionless. They now had the tail much shorter, and the fore-legs showing as well as the hind, but the latter not very long, and without joints or toes.
In the latter no trace of hind-legs was visible, but the abdominal region was much emaciated and contracted, while the head region was broader. May 4. Noticed minute white buds of hind-legs in the thyroid-fed tadpoles. May 6. A number of the thyroid-fed were dying, and the skin and opercular membranes were swollen out away from the tissues beneath.
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