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as well as flies, spiders, earwigs, smooth caterpillars, gentles and 
their pupze, ants’ eggs and ants, cockroaches, mealworms, and 
the like. 
In feeding Reptiles and Batrachians on earthworms, care should 
be taken not to give the highly-coloured and strong-smelling worm 
known as the ‘‘ Brandling,”’ and chiefly found in manure-heaps, 
for to such animals this worm seems to act as a poison. I re- 
member losing a fine young Axolotl through carelessly giving 
it such a worm. Dr. Stradling, in one of his interesting articles 
on Snakes, refers, if I remember rightly, to losses brought about 
by unconsciously providing young Snakes with this noxious 
Annelid as food. 
The Common Lizard, as its specific name implies, is viviparous, 
z.e., the egg on being deposited breaks, and the young one is free. 
The gravid female may often be seen during the months of June 
and July flattening herself as much as possible while basking in 
the sun, in order that, as Dr. Bell remarked, ‘‘The solar heat 
may be communicated to the embryo through the medium of the 
mother.” <A Lizard in this condition is lethargic, and may easily 
be caught. The young, from two to six, will then be produced 
in confinement. They come into the world perfectly formed (all 
Reptiles do), of a bronzy-black colour, and about an 13in. long. 
They are very pretty, and may easily be reared. As soon as they 
are discovered, they should be removed (though I have never 
known their mother to eat them, her fellow Lizards might) to 
another and smaller vivarium, where they can be kept under ob- 
servation and provided with as much sunshine as possible. At 
the same time, they must not be left without means of taking 
shelter from the sun. The water should be placed in a very 
shallow vessel, and their food may consist of tiny flies (which 
may be caught according to directions given in another place), 
ants’ eggs or rather their pupee, the young ants as soon as they 
leave their pupal envelope (they are then soft and tender), the 
little green-fly found on rose-leaves, those that congregate on the 
underside of the leaves of the sycamore-tree, and other flies of a 
similar kind. As the young Lizards grow, they will eat small 
cockroaches, tiny worms, gentles of small flies, mealworms of a 
suitable size, and other prey. These little Reptiles grow quickly 
