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LACERTID.E. 



never brings forth her young alive, as is ahvays the case with 

 the common Lizard. 



It is a northern species, rarely occurring so far south as 

 Italy, but sufficiently common in the northern parts of 

 France and the middle districts of the European Continent, 

 and extending, as we have seen, as far north as Sweden and 

 Denmark. 



It varies exceedingly, like most others of the Lacertine 

 group, in colour and marking. The most common colour of 

 the upper parts is a sandy brown, with obscure longitudi- 

 nal fasciae of a darker brown, and a lateral series of black 

 rounded spots, each marked with a yellowish white dot or 

 line in the centre. There is often in this most common 

 variety more or less of green on the sides. The following 

 figure is of a very beautiful individual in my collection which 

 was taken in the neighbourhood of Poole by my relative 



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