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and consequently very remote from each other, 

 and not near so far backward as the corners of 

 the mouth : the body is longish, moderately plurnp 

 or thick, and is pale brown, marked, in a conflu- 

 ent manner, with darker variegations : from the 

 fore to the hind legs runs an obscurely-elevated 

 lateral line : the legs are about an inch in length, 

 and both fore and hind legs are furnished along 

 the whole length of their back part with a dilated 

 skin or crest, which, just above each foot, is 

 sinuated by two pretty deep scollops or insections : 

 the tail resembles that of the common water-newt, 

 but is neither so long nor so deeply finned or 

 crested in proportion, and its termination is rather 

 obtuse than acute : the feet are very small : the 

 fore feet furnished with four, and the hind with 

 five toes, all destitute of claws, or at least the ap- 

 pearance of those parts is but very obscure. No 

 particular history is annexed to the specimen, nor 

 is its native place known. 



SPOTTED WATER-NEWT. 



Lacerta Maculata. L. nigricans, dorso longitudinaliter duplici 



serie albo maculato. 

 Blackish Water-Newt, with a double row of white spots down 



the back. 



Lacerta punctata. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1076. 

 Spotted Eft. Catesb. Car. Append, t. 10. 



THIS species, according to Catesby, is an inha- 

 bitant of ponds, ditches, and other stagnant waters 



