YORKSHIRE—VERTEBRATE FAUNA. xli 
REE LIivES, AND AMPHIBIANS. 
The British lists given include nine reptiles and seven 
amphibians, six of each class being recorded as occurring in 
Yorkshire. The three British reptiles not hitherto found in 
the county are the Smooth Snake, a species found only in 
the New Forest, the Green Lizard, a questionable native of 
Britain, and the Sand-Lizard, a species not unlikely to inhabit 
Yorkshire, for which indeed it has been reported, but not 
sufficiently authoritatively to warrant its being accepted. It is 
notable that both the Turtles—which are however but accidental 
stragglers from tropical seas—have occurred off the Yorkshire 
coast. 
Of the amphibians all the species occur in Yorkshire except 
the Edible Frog, only admissible as British on the strength of 
examples introduced within living memory, and _ successfully 
naturalised in the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk fens. The most 
interesting of the Yorkshire amphibians is the Natterjack Toad, 
which the present work is the means of adding to the fauna. ‘The 
distribution of the Newts being imperfectly worked out requires 
further investigation, when no doubt the range of the Palmated 
Newt will be found more general than at present appears to be 
the case. 
Compared with other county-lists, very little difference is 
observable. Norfolk possesses the Edible Frog, and Northumber- 
land and Durham the Sand-Lizard, while both are deficient in the 
two Turtles. 

FISHES. 
This group has been but imperfectly investigated in Yorkshire, 
very few naturalists having devoted attention to the study of 
the marine species; consequently there are but scanty materials 
for ascertaining the faunistic position, or even the relative abun- 
dance or scarcity of most of the species. Nevertheless the 
knowledge already acquired justifies the opinion that Yorkshire 
possesses a rich and varied pisci-fauna, accounted for by the 
