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THE NATTERJACK. 



(Bufo calamita, Laur.) 



The Natterjack (Plate 7, Fig. 1 and 2), is less com- 

 mon or widely distributed in this country than its 

 congener the common toad. Yet it is far from un- 

 common in many localities, and may be regarded 

 rather as local than rare. In places where it is 

 found at all, it is often plentiful. The earliest 

 author who mentions this animal as a British native 

 is Pennant, in the third volume of his " British 

 Zoology." He says it had been found " on Putney 

 Common, and near Reverby Abbey, Lincolnshire, 

 where it was called the natterjack." It is to be 

 met with in several localities around London, as at 

 Blackheath, Deptford, Cobham, and Wisley. In 



Cambridgeshire, near Gamlingay ; in Norfolk ; at 



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