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used to be found not far from Carlisle in woods on 

 the banks of the Eden." — G. W. Mukdoch, Bentham 

 K.S.O. 



LANCASHIRE (NORTH OF THE SANDS). 



"The slow- worm is the most common, although it 

 may be local, as the late H. A. Macpherson {Fauna of 

 Lakeland, 1892) thought. In the neighbourhood of 

 Ulverston I have seen only one specimen of the 

 common viviparous lizard ; but this proves nothing, as 

 I can say the same of the grass snake, which other 

 people have found locally abundant. On the lime- 

 stones of West Lancashire I have seen no reptiles 

 except a few vipers." — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, Lanes. 



CUMBERLAND, NORTH LANCASHIRE, AND 

 WESTMORELAND. 



" The most common is Z. vivijMra, which in many 

 places is numerous. Dry sandbanks, hedgerows, and 

 quiet roadsides are the special haunts. It may be seen 

 sunning itself on the piles of old sleepers near quiet 

 railway stations. Anguis fragilis is, I believe, in some 

 parts of Furness more common than L. vivipara. I 

 had no difficulty when living at Ulverston in finding 

 small colonies of this species, often several individuals 

 under one stone, about the edges of the high moor- 

 lands near there. In Cumberland and Westmoreland 

 it is thinly scattered, nowhere in any great numbers." 

 — W. Duckworth, Beaconside, Penrith. 



