PALMATE NEWT. \Q\ 



Newt (Lissotriton palmipes), do not represent a 

 genuine species at all, but a variety of the common 

 newt, spotted on the sides and belly with large black 

 spots. This error was corrected in the second edition, 

 and new figures, not very characteristic, added. 



This species appears to have been first recog- 

 nized by Eazoumowski in 1788, when it was dis- 

 covered in the fountain of Vernens, in the canton of 

 Vaud, in company with the Smooth Newt. The 

 first notice of it in this country, as far as we are 

 aware, is the account in the Zoologist, dated May 

 3rd, 1848, by Mr. J. Wolley, in which he mentions 

 having found it around Edinburgh ; and that during 

 a ramble in the Pentland Hills he saw no other 

 species."* In the succeeding number of the same 

 journal, Mr. W. Baker, of Bridgewater, stated that 

 he had found this species in the neighbourhood of 

 Bridgewater for many years, and had forwarded 

 specimens to Mr. Bell ; t so that the merit of its 

 discovery rests with Mr. Baker. A subsequent 

 communication from Mr. Wolley adds another local- 

 ity, that of some pools by the side of the hills which 

 rise from Loch Eribol, on the west. J 



About this time M. Julian Deby indicated the 

 points of difference between the common newt and 

 the present species, with a view to the correction of 



* The Zoologist, p. 2149. f The Zoologist, p. 2198. 



\ The Zoologist, p. 2265. 



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