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whereas I have never been in any part of Sweden, from 

 Scania up to Quickiock, Lapland, where I did not meet 

 with the little viviparous lizard, and Nilsson corroborates 

 this statement. 



This species may always be distinguished from the next 

 by the thicker form, the shorter and thicker tail, the teeth 

 on the palate, and the much more handsome appearance. 

 I never saw the common lizard here spotted with white in 

 the same manner as the sand lizard. 



3. L. VIVIPARA, Jacq. Skogs Odla. The Viviparous Lizard. 



Usual length about 6 in. (head and body 2 to 4 in.) ; 



colour varies much; usually brown with a dark line 



down the back ; the under parts whitish ; no teeth on 



the palate. 



Common all over Sweden, from the very south up to at 

 least Quickiock, Lapland. 



Fam. 2. OPHIOSATJRI. 



With the general characters of the true lizards, the 

 members of this family unite the following : the body is 

 elongated, snake-like ; above and below covered with smooth 

 scales ; not carinated as in the lizards, and with either very 

 short or no feet. 



Our European blind or slow worm, is, in fact, a familiar 

 representative of the great family of skinks. No external 

 traces of limbs can be found, but under the skin, rudiments 

 of legs may be discovered. 



Gen. Anguisj L. 

 Body cylindrical ; covered with small smooth scales. 



4. ANGUIS FRAGILIS, L. Armsla. The Blind Worm. 



Brown-grey above ; steel blue below ; usually a small 

 black streak along each side of the back, and sometimes 

 a similar one along the middle of the back; scales 

 roundish, flat; tail blunt, and easily broken, as in 

 the lizard. 



