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THE NATTERJACK. 



(Bufo calamita, Laur.) 



THE Natterjack is less common or widely dis- 

 tributed in this country than its congener the 

 common toad. Yet it is far from uncommon in 

 many localities, and may be regarded rather as 

 local than rare. In places where it is found at 

 all, it is often plentiful. The earliest author who 

 mentions this reptile as a British native, is 

 Pennant, in the third volume of his " British 

 Zoology." He says it had been found " on Putney 

 Common, and near Reverby Abbey, Lincolnshire, 

 where it is called the natterjack." It is t& be 

 met with in several localities around London, as 

 at Blackheath, Deptford, Cobham, and Wisley. 

 In Cambridgeshire, near Gamlingay ; in Norfolk ; 

 at Ormesby, near Yarmouth ; and one or two sta- 

 tions in the neighbourhood of Lynn and Norwich, 

 and in Suffolk, near Southwold. In Scotland it 



