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of which spent the whole time with this Varanus. They were at first evidently imbued with the most abject terror when the Monitor approached them, and would huddle together immovable, and with their eyes fixed on their enemy; but in the course of a few weeks, when they found they were not attacked, and familiarity breeding either contempt or friendship, they frequently rested on the reptile's back. The frogs were varied, belonging at least to several genera, so that they could not have been all "distasteful." The frogs rapidly acquired experience, and overcame what may loosely be called an "instinctive" fear.
