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THE WHITE FROG. .It would be somewhat difficult to feed our pet canary with a groundsel plant picked in Uganda, for groundsel plants in that African colony are trees from 15 to 20 feet high with stems two feet thick. Some specimens of these plants and of giant lobelias are among the treasures two scientists have brought back to the British Natural History Museum. Altogether they have collected 50 cases of flowers and insects from the Ruwenzori Mountains and other ranges in Uganda, marked in old maps as the Mountains of the Moon. Among the insects are flies which have lost their wings because the wind is so strong in the mountainous ranges that they have to rely on their legs alone. • Among the new discoveries were a white frog which lives in perpetual darkness and two species of mosquitoes which frequent bamboo forests. A caterpillar bores holes ifi the stem of the bamboo plant, water runs into these holes, and mosquito larvae breed in the water.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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