162 OUR REPTILES. 



the common newt, spotted on the sides and 

 belly with large black spots. This error was 

 corrected in the second edition, and new figures, 

 not very characteristic, added. 



This species appears to have been first recog- 

 nized by Razoumowski in 1788, when it was 

 discovered in the fountain of Vernens, in the 

 canton of Vaud, in company with the Smooth 

 Newt. The first notice of it in this country, as 

 far as we are aware, is the account in the Zoolo- 

 gist, dated May 3rd, 1848, by Mr. J. Wolley, 

 in which he mentions having found it around 

 Edinburgh ; and that during a ramble in the 

 Pentland Hills he saw no other species.* In 

 the succeeding number of the same journal, Mr. 

 W. Baker, of Bridgewater, stated that he had 

 found this species in the neighbourhood of 

 Bridgewater for many years, and had forwarded 

 specimens to Mr. Belief so that the merit of 

 its discovery rests with Mr. Baker. A subse- 

 quent communication from Mr. Wolley adds 

 another locality, that of some pools by the side 

 of the hills which rise from Loch Eribol, on the 

 west.J 



About this time M. Julian Deby indicated the 

 points of difference between the common newt 



* The Zoologist, p. 2149. t The Zoologist, p. 2198. 

 t The Zoologist, p. 2265. 



