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ness, the Rev. W. H. Cordeaux, gives evidence to 

 the effect that he had examined the Reptilia of the 

 Canterbury Museum, and had there found a male 

 and female of this species, but that no trustworthy 

 information could be obtained of the locality and 

 date of their capture.* In 1863 a paper was read 

 and a specimen exhibited before the Holmesdale 

 Natural History Club, at Reigate, by Mr. J. A. 

 Brewer. The specimen was caught by a labourer on 

 a bank by the side of the road, a little way from 

 Dorking, on the road to Reigate, and purchased of 

 him the same evening. In the course of this paper, 

 Mr. Brewer remarks :f — "The occurrence of this soli- 

 tary specimen is not sufficient in itself to establish 

 it as a British species ; but on showing it, a few days 

 since, to Mr. John E. Daniel, a well-known naturalist, 

 and who certainly would not have been likely to 

 mistake this beautiful species, he informed me that 

 a few years since he had observed three or four 

 specimens of it on the heath, about half-a-mile south 

 of Wareham, in Dorsetshire, one of which he cap- 

 tured, and is quite certain of its identity with the 

 Grreen Lizard (Lacerta viridis), a species which 

 he is well acquainted with, having frequently seen 

 it in Grermany, and received specimens from the 

 Channel Islands. Gilbert White, in his " Natural 



Zoologist, p. 2855. t Ibid, p. 8(i39. 



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