34 OUR REPTILES. 



If we turn over the pages of the earlier volumes 

 of the Zoologist we here and there encounter little 

 facts of a very stubborn nature, relative to the Green 

 Lizard, in every instance guaranteed by some name 

 well known in the annals of science. One of the 

 earliest of these notes is by Dr. Brornfield,*" in which 

 he states, " I am told, on competent authority, that 

 Lacerta viriclis is quite frequent, and even abun- 

 dant, in the neighbourhood of Heme Bay. I may 

 add, there can be no doubt about the species, and 

 that it certainly is not the smaller green lizard of 

 Poole, but identical with the species long known tc 

 inhabit Guernsey, as my friend, Professor Bell, has 

 received a specimen from Heme Bay, but not in 

 time to notice the discovery for the second edition 

 of his ' British Reptiles.' : Corroborative of this, 

 and on the same page of that journal, occurs the 

 following communication from the late Mr. John 

 Wolley : — " Seven or eight years ago, a schoolfellow 

 of mine at Eton, a native of Guernsey, assured me 

 he had seen lizards in Devonshire precisely similar 

 to the lizards of his own island;" and again, "Nearly 

 two years since a learned Professor of the University 

 of Edinburgh mentioned that he had dissected a 

 Green Lizard brought by a botanical party from the 

 Clova Mountains." Still later another credible wit- 



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