OUR REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS, 64 
AMPHIBIANS. 
EcAupDATA. 
1. Common Frog. RANA TEMPORARIA, LINN. 
Common, and generally distributed. 
2. Common Toad. Buro vunearis, Laur. 
Common and generally distributed in all three counties. 
3. Natterjack Toad. Buro caLAmita, Laur. 
Not indigenous, but has been introduced into Staffordshire and 
Leicestershire. 
Many years ago the late Mr. Edwin Brown presented some speci- 
mens of this handsome little toad, which he had obtained fiom 
Cheshire, to Sir Oswald Mosley, who turned them out in his ground 
at Rolleston. This colony still survived ten years after its intio- 
duction, so that it is just possible that descendants may still exist 
and be claimed as indigenous by some observer ignorant of their 
history. In a somewhat similar manner I was myself the means of 
unintentionally introducing the Natterjack into Leicestershire, 
having presented a series of living specimens of various ages to the 
Leicester Museum, which I had collected in Lancashire. Some of 
these were turned out in the Museum grounds by the Curator, Mr. 
Montagu Browne, F.G.S., F.Z.S., as recorded in his “ Vertebrate 
Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland,” p. 182. It is scarcely 
probable that in this case any would long survive. 
It may be well to mention, perhaps, that the natterjack toad may 
readily be recognised by the yellow line down the middle of the back, 
and by its active movements. It can also withstand heat far better 
than the common toad. 
CAUDATA. 
4, Great Crested or Warty Newt. Monce cristata, Laur. 
Fairly common in ponds and ditches. 
