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ANOURA. BUFONIDAE. 
The Toap—Rana Bufo.—Linn. Bufo vulgaris. —Laurent. 
This is also very common. In general opinion the Toad 
bears the same relation to the Frog, as the Viper does to 
the Snake. Its form is elumsy, its colours dull, and its 
movements slow; and to most persons it is disagreeable or 
loathsome ; others who are accustomed to study these 
creatures, look on them not only without disgust, but with 
much agreeable interest. 
URODELA. SALAMANDRADAE. 
The WArTY NEewT or WATER EFT— Triton cristatus. 
EvErT, of Somersetshire. 
This is the largest of the British Newts. It is common 
in ponds and ditches, from early spring to the end of 
summer ; and in old shrubby banks, hollow trees, and 
rubbish, all the winter. 
SMOOTH NEWT, EFT, or EvET—Lissotriton ; Lacerta 
aquatica.—Linn. 
This also is very common in still water in summer, and 
in grass banks, &c. in autumn and winter. 
FRINGE-FOOTED SMOOTH NEWT. 
This is also common, with habits like those of the last 
mentioned, and perhaps is only a more perfectly developed 
form of the same. 
WEBB-FOOTED SMOOTH NEWT.—Lissotriton Palmipes. 
This, the prettiest of the Newts, was first found, as 
British, on Clay Hill Farm, at Cannington, in our county. 
It has been since found near Edinburgh, and both occur- 
rences are published in the “ Zoologist,” and in the second 
edition of Bell’s “ British Reptiles.” I had long possessed 
specimens of the new British Newt, when in April, 1843, 
I received a note from the Dean of Westminster, who was 
then giving lectures on reptiles to the Ashmolean Society. 
