THE COMMON LIZARD. 



(Zootoca viviyara.') 



Enlarged view of the upper surface of the hea 1, showing the 

 form, and arrangement of the pla f es.* 



The scaly or viviparous Lizard (Plate I.) is a com- 

 mon inhabitant of heaths and banks in elevated 

 districts in England and Scotland, whilst it appears 

 to have been one of the few reptiles which St. Patrick 

 permitted to remain within the limits of the Emerald 

 Isle. To what circumstance such forbearance in 

 this instance is due, chroniclers seem to have been 

 unable to tell. In some seasons, as fur instance in 



* Milne-Ed wards in "Ann. des Sc. Nat.." ser. i., vol. xvi. 

 t. 5, f. 5. 



