REPTILES 

 AND BATRACHIANS 



The list of reptiles and batrachians is a very meagre one, only the 

 commonest species being found in Nottinghamshire, and even of these 

 the slow-worm and viper are now very rare. Sterland's assertion (in 

 White's Worksop, the Dukery, and Sherwood Forest] that the sand lizard 

 (Lacerta agilis) ' may be seen occasionally ' in Sherwood Forest is doubt- 

 less an error, and I have hitherto searched in vain for the palmated newt 

 (Molge palmata). 



REPTILES 



LACERTILIA 



1. Common Lizard. Lacerta vivipara, Jacq. 

 Formerly common in Nottingham Park, on 



the forest and other sandy gorse covered com- 

 mons about the city ; but the absorption of 

 most of its former haunts within the ever- 

 extending area covered by bricks and mortar 

 has almost exterminated the lizard in this 

 neighbourhood. It is still however to be 

 met with in considerable numbers on Bulwell 

 Forest, where the writer recently saw five 

 specimens during a morning stroll across the 

 forest. It was also seen last summer (1902) 

 in an enclosed part of the old Nottingham 

 Forest within the city boundary. 



2. Slow-worm or Blind-worm. Anguh fra- 



gi/is, Linn. 

 At one time frequent in Sherwood Forest, 



according to Sterland. Not often seen now, 

 but has been taken at Gedling, Lambley and 

 elsewhere. 



OPHIDIA 



3. Common or Ringed Snake. Tropidonotw 



natrix, Linn. 



Fairly common and generally distributed 

 throughout the county. 



4. Viper or Adder. Fipera berus, Linn. 

 Formerly common in Sherwood Forest, 



according to Sterland, but now rare. Mr. J. 

 Whitaker reports it as occurring very occa- 

 sionally about Rainworth ; one killed on the 

 carriage drive there in 1900 was nearly two 

 feet long. I have heard also of specimens 

 captured at Oxton and in Newstead Park. 



BATRACHIANS 



ECAUDATA 



1. Common Frog. Rana temporaria, Linn. 



2. Common Toad. Bufo vulgarity Laur. 



Great 

 Laur. 



CAUDATA 



Crested Newt. Molge cristata, 



Both of the above are abundant in the 

 county. 



4. Common Newt. Molge vutgaris, Linn. 



Both common and generally distributed in 

 the county, the latter being much the more 

 abundant. 



ADDENDA 



Since the above was printed the following records have been received : Common Lizard : 

 Seen by the writer 4 September, 1903, in a gravel pit on the Barrow Hills, Everton ; reported 

 by Mr. Houghton as common in the Worksop district. Slow-worm : Also occurs in the 

 Worksop district, according to Mr. Houghton. A large specimen seen by the Rev. A. 

 Thornley in the summer of 1903 in quarry behind Creswell Crags. Viper: A very fine 

 example, measuring two feet in length, captured in Sherwood Forest near Edwinstowe in 

 Nov. 1904, has been preserved by Mr. Houghton, who has seen this species also at Shireoaks. 



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