THE GREEN LIZAED. 33 



wild state, is without a doubt, but how it came 

 there is past finding out. 



If we turn over the pages of the earlier 

 volumes of the Zoologist we here and there 

 encounter little facts of a very stubborn nature, 

 relative to the Green Lizard, in every instance 

 guaranteed by some name well known in the 

 annals of science. One of the earliest of these 

 notes is by Dr. Bromfield,* in which he states 

 <r l am told, on competent authority, th&t Lacerta 

 viridis is quite frequent and even abundant in 

 the neighbourhood of Herne Bay. I may add, 

 there can be no doubt about the species, and 

 that it certainly is not the smaller green lizard of 

 Poole, but identical with the species long known 

 to inhabit Guernsey, as my friend Professor Bell 

 has received a specimen from Herne Bay, but 

 not in time to notice the discovery for the 

 second edition of his "British Eep tiles. " Corro- 

 borative of this, and on the same page of that 

 journal, occurs the following communication 

 from the late Mr. John Wolley : " Seven or 

 eight years ago, a schoolfellow of mine at Eton, 

 a native of Guernsey, assured me he had seen 

 lizards in Devonshire precisely similar to the 

 lizards of his own island;" and again, "Nearly 

 two years since a learned Professor of the TJni- 



* Zoologist, p. 2707. 

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