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Southport. Its distribution is said to extend to the 

 Cheshire coast also. The slow-worm and the common 

 lizard both occur fairly numerously in restricted and 

 specially suitable places. 



X. HuMBER Province. 

 Here the slow-worm and common lizard are the 

 only two species found, as in most of the northern 

 provinces. Of these two, the information avail- 

 able points to the common lizard being the more 

 common in the majority of places in the province. 

 The slow-worm has suffered more than its more 

 active relative at the hands of civilisation in these 

 populous districts. 



XI. Tyne Province. 

 On the whole the common lizard predominates over 

 the slow-worm here also, though in some of the 

 sheltered valleys the slow-worm is the more common. 

 The latter species is, however, more local nowadays 

 than the former. 



XII. Lakes Province. 

 The author's experience of the Lake District has 

 been that reptile life is conspicuous by its absence. 

 No species can be said to be more than occasion- 

 ally seen. The neighbourhood of Morecambe Bay is 

 one of the localities where the slow-worm is fairly 

 common. The common lizard occurs in the Isle of Man. 



