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the latter most commonly. It is most abundant on 

 heaths, as Hayes and Keston Commons, and in disused 

 chalk quarries round Gravesend, where they sun them- 

 selves upon the pieces of chalk or stones. The vivi- 

 parous lizard is easy to breed from the pregnant females. 

 The slow-worm occurs occasionally in Lonesome Woods 

 near Mitcham, also commonly under large stones on 

 the South Kentish coast. In 1900 I took two, 

 each 15 inches long, at Folkestone, one copper hued, 

 the other steel grey." — Mervyn Palmee, Willmer 

 Museum, West Norwood. 



SURREY. 



" All three species occur in Surrey. The slow- 

 worm and the viviparous lizard most commonly. The 

 sand lizard I find in a valley between the Devil's 

 Jumps and Tilford ; always fairly close to a delightful 

 little brook that contains lamperns and crayfish. The 

 sand lizard is very fond of grasshoppers as food." — 

 Oswald H. Latter, Charterhouse, Godalming. 



" The slow-worm is the most common. The sand 

 lizard and the common lizard are found in about 

 equal numbers upon the heath land of Fernsham 

 and Hindhead." — Bryan Hook, Farnham, Surrey. 



ESSEX. 



" Lacerta vivipara and Anguis fragilis are both 

 common in all parts of the county. They are our 

 only local species." — Henry Layer, Colchester. 



