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Che Sumerartshire Foune, 
( Continued.) 
BY MR. W. BAKER. 
Kırtilen. 
HE number of British species of reptiles is very 
limited. Professor Bell, in his recent edition of 
the “ History of British Reptiles,” records only fourteen, 
and this small number is made up by the addition of 
several species unknown as British until of late years. 
Of these we can claim only ten or eleven for our Somer- 
setshire Fauna. 
Most people are averse to close acquaintance with these 
creatures, therefore little is generally known about them; 
but they are all, except the Viper or Adder, Pelias Berus, 
quite harmless, and very interesting to those persons who 
can observe and study them complacently. The amphibia 
are all easily reared in confinement from the ova, through 
alltheir changes, and in a clear and roomy glass vessel 
they are lively and amusing little things, and their develop- 
ment will furnish subjects of deep contemplation to the 
philosophical naturalist. 
TESTUDINATA. CHELONIDAER. 
The Hawe’s-BILL TURTLE, Chelonia imbricata, has 
been taken alive in the river Parret. 
