surIcate

[Native name.] Zool .: Any individual of the genus Suricata (q. v.). Length about thirteen inches, tail six inches; color grayish-brown, with yellowish-gray transverse stripes on back. Little is known of the habits of these animals in a state of nature, beyond the fact that they are fo orial. Su-ri-năm, s. [See def.] Geog.: Dutch Guiana and the river which runs through it. Surinam-bark, s . 3947 into a leathery tube; large hind limbs with webbed feet; fore feet small, with four slender webbed fingers, terminating in four small projections. It is brownish-olive above, whitish below; the skin is covered with a number of tiny hard granules, interspersed with horny, tubercular projections. It has no tongue, and the jaws and palate are toothle . The species is propagated in an extremely curious manner. When the eggs are laid, the male impregnates them, takes them in his paws, and places them on the back of the female, where they adhere by means of a glutinous secretion, and become by degrees em bedded in a series of cells which then form in the skin. When the proce is completed, a membrane closes over the cells, and the back of the female bears a strong resemblance to a piece of dark honeycomb. In these cells the eggs are hatched, and the young undergo their metamorphosis, bursting through the protecting membrane as perfect frogs. Surinam-toad.