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THE GREEN LIZAED. 



(Lacerta viridis.) 



Enlarged view of the side of the head, showing the form and 

 arrangement of the plates.* 



Is the Green Lizard (Plate 2) really a native of 

 Britain ? That is the very knotty question which 

 we desire to settle, both for our own satisfaction 

 and that of our readers, but cannot divest our minds 

 of a lingering doubt whether it may not have de- 

 scended to us in a similar manner to the shower of 

 edible frogs which Mr. Penney rained down upon 

 Foulmire. That this species has been found in Great 

 Britain, in an apparently wild state, is without a 

 doubt, but how it came there is past rinding out. 



* Milne-Edwards in " Ann. des. Sc. Nat.," ser. i., vol. xvi., t. 7, 

 f. 2. 



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