HORNED TOAD, or HORNED FROG. The com mon name of several short-legged, depressed, toad-like horny lizards, all of which occur in North America. According to Cope and others there are two genera, I'hrynosoma and Anota, containing eleven species, eight of which occur in the United States. Anota differs from Phryno soma only in the fact that the tympanic drum is concealed by a scaly integument. Horned toads range from British America into Mexico. They feed mainly on insects, which they capture with a rapid thrusting out of their mucilaginous tong-ties. They are sluggish, harmless lizards, with little power of self-defense save their pointed scales, which, when bristled up, are a disagreea ble mouthful for snakes, their most formidable hoes. They will, however, fight and even kill a snake small enough to be an even match. Some of the species are said to squirt blood from the eyes when much irritated. The majority of the species are desert inhabitants, and escape pursuit by hiding beneath the prickly agaves, yueeas. and cacti of the plains. Other species live in cedar and pine belts. Both those forms that live on the bare stones or sand of the plains and those that occur in the pine belt are remarkably well protected by resemblance to thc;ir back ground. The young, a dozen or more at a time. are born from eggs. which are laid by the mother
only an hour or so before they are ready to hatch. When the little ones emerge they are able to begin at once to catch and eat minute in sects. Both young and old make interesting pets. largely because of their amusing irascibility. and can be taught to take flies from the hand. and do other simple things. See LIZARD: and Plate of IGUANA AND OTHER AMERICAN LIZARDS.
County. N. Y., 01 miles southeast. of Buffalo. on the Canisteo River, and on the Erie and other railroads New York. C 31. It has a free academy, a public) library of volumes. and public parks: and manufactures brick. silks, white goods. railway supplies. leather, sash, doors, and blinds. The government is ad ministered under a revised charter of 1890, which provides for a mayor, elected biennially, in whose power, subject, to the consent of the council. rest the appointments to subordinate offices; and a unicameral council. Settled in 1790, Hornells ville was part of Canisteo, and Was called Upper Canis(eo until 1820. when it Was incorporated 114 a separate town under its present name, given in honor of Judge George Hornell, who was prom inent in the town's early history. Population, in 1890, 10,996; in 1900, 11,918.