MERSEY PROVINCE 179 



UPPINGHAM DISTKICT. 



" The viviparous lizard is rare, one specimen from 

 Wakerley Woods. The slow- worm is not common 

 near Uppingham, two seen at Wakerley." — C. R. 

 Haines, Uppingham. {Zool. Report for 1901.) 



LINCOLN. 



" The most common is the viviparous lizard, which 

 is plentiful within a mile from here, on a sandy bank 

 on Langton Hills, near Horncastle. The slow- worm 

 is fairly common, in damp meadows chiefly, near the 

 Woodhall Moor, five miles distant." — J. Conway 

 Dalter, Langton, Horncastle. 



IX. Mersey Province. 



" Eeport has it that the sand lizard was once 

 common on Overton Hills, and I saw and took some 

 there on Whit-Monday, 1903. It is common on the 

 sandhills at Southport, and I have brought specimens 

 from that locality. I have also a fine male and 

 female sent to me from Soham. This lizard does not 

 appear to care much for w^ater, although, when I have 

 sprinkled water on the growing grass in their cage, 

 I have seen them repeatedly take off the globules, 

 which suggests that in the wild state the dew is their 

 natural beverage. They are seldom, if ever, found in 



