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GREAT WATER NEWT. 



Great Water Newt, at the end of the first and second years. 



( Triton cristatus.) 



The Great Water Newt, or Common Warty Newt 

 (Plate 8), is only a small creature of its kind after 

 all, since it seldom exceeds a length of six inches. 

 Though not so common as the smooth newt, it is by 

 no means a rare British species, and is generally to 

 be found in ponds and large ditches, where it sub- 

 sists upon water insects and small animals, occasion- 

 ally making a meal of its cousins the little eft or 

 smooth newt. On the Continent this triton is the 



