flc^jtilcs of goviici 



By Rev. 0. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., &c., &c. 



Bead at the Field Club Meeting, Dorchester, March 15th, 1S94. 



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[With Plate.] 



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X Vol. xvii. "Zoologist " 1893, p. 174, a catalogue is 

 given l.y Mr. Miller Christie, F.Z.S., of " Local 

 Lists of British Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes," 

 arranged under counties, and he gives lists from 

 numerous counties in England and "Wales. As 

 respects Reptiles the only lists that appear ever 

 to have been published of those of the county of 

 Dorset are — (i.) "A catalogue of the Reptiles 

 found in Dorsetshire " (written by the late Mr. 

 J. C. Dale and published in 1837 in "The Naturalist,"* Vol. ii., 

 p. 182), containing a record of only seveji species ; (ii.) A list 

 given by Mr. C. W. Dale of eight species in his " History of 

 Glanvilles Wootton," p. 37, published in 1878. 



The number of si^ecies now recorded in Dorsetshire is thirteen, 

 including the "Leathery Turtle," Sjrjhargis coriacea (Dumeril et 

 Bibron). Only two other species of Reptiles are at present 



The Naturalist" (Neville Woods), Vol. ii., pp. 182-183, London, 



1837. 



