CHAPTEE XVI 



HI. THAMES PKOVINCE. IV. OUSE PKOVINCE. 

 V. SEVEEN PROVINCE. 



III. Thames Province. 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



" The slow- worm and the viviparous lizard both 

 occur, and are equally common." — Lilian Veley, Hon. 

 Sec, Ashmolean Nat. Hist. Soc, Oxford. 



KENT. 



" Both slow-worms and viviparous lizards are common 

 here, the former especially. Both are giving way 

 before the bricks and mortar ; though both, I am glad 

 to say, still occur on Bostall Heath. Two years ago 

 (1901) I found eleven slow- worms on one Saturday 

 afternoon ramble, on the edge of Plumstead Common. 

 They were all under old tins, slates, etc." — Arthur S. 

 PoORE, Bostall Heath, Belvedere. 



KENT AND SURREY. 



" The slow-worm and common lizard both are found, 



