Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — The Horned Toad. [ARTICLE]

The Horned Toad.

“One of the strangest species ot animal life I ever came in contact with,” said Professor E. C. Sawyer, o» Philadelphia, “is the horned toad, which is qnite common in Arizona aid New Mexico. These animals are somewhat larger than the common toads which infest our lawns and gardens, and are found in large numbers on the sandy plains of the southwest. They are strange-looking little creatures, and their name is derived from the fact that three projections like horns stick right out from the top of their heads. The most curious feature about these toads is tlm habit they have of apparently spirting blood from their eyes when disturbed. An old hunter who had livsd in that locality all his life, told me that it was not really blodd that theja creatures spurted forth, but a liquid resembling it, and that it came fro,a little orifices just above and behind the eyes. He also told me that this liquid had a stupefying effect upon an animal covered with it.”—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.