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THE GREEN LIZARD. 



(Lacerta viridis.) 



Enlarged view of the side of the head, showing the form and arrangement 

 of the plates.* 



Is the Green Lizard really a native of Britain ? 

 That is the very knotty question which we 

 desire to settle, both for our own satisfaction 

 and that of our readers, but cannot divest our 

 minds of a lingering doubt whether it may not 

 have descended to us in a similar manner to the 

 shower of edible frogs which Mr. Penney rained 

 down upon Foulmire. That this species has 

 been found in Great Britain, in an apparently 



* Milne-Edwards in " Ann. des Sc. Nat.," ser. i. vol. xvi. 

 t. 7, f. 2. 



