CHAPTER XVIII 



SCOTLAND 



Throughout the whole of Scotland the slow-worm 

 and the common lizard are both to be found, of course 

 more plentifully in some districts than in others, but 

 still the distribution of both species is almost universal. 

 The author was much struck, during a recent reptile 

 hunt in the Highlands of Eoss-shire and Inverness- 

 shire, with the comparative rarity of the slow-worm 

 in the particular glens searched, whilst the common 

 lizard was frequently seen scuttling away amongst the 

 heather, and this experience seems to have been that 

 of many other observers. On the whole, then, we 

 may say that the common viviparous lizard is the 

 most common in Scotland, and that the slow-worm is 

 almost as widely — if less numerously — distributed. 



Scotland. 

 Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.E.S., has been kind enough 

 to send me the list of lizards and the localities 

 from which they were taken, which are in the 



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