Reptiles and Batrachians of the Edinburgh District. 491 
—no statement worthy of serious consideration concerning 
the occurrence of the true Sand Lizard being on record 
so far as I know, and the evidence for the Smooth Snake 
resting on the more than doubtful reference of Sowerby’s 
Coluber dumfrisiensis to that species. 
The Edinburgh list comprises the three species common to 
the rest of Scotland; and (but only provisionally, and there- 
fore within square brackets) the Ringed Snake, several 
examples of which, in all probability escapes or their direct 
descendants, have been captured in the suburbs of the city. 
In Britain the class Batrachia is represented by seven 
species, four belonging to the tail-less and three to the tailed 
division. All of them, except the Edible Frog (Rana escu- 
lenta)—a species, by the way, whose claim to indigenous 
rank in any part of Britain is not yet free from doubt— 
extend their range north to Scotland. Of the six which 
reach Scotland, five, namely—the Common Frog (Rana 
temporaria), the Common Toad (Bufo vulgaris), the Warty 
Newt (Molge cristata), the Smooth Newt (Molge vulgaris), 
and the Palmated Newt (Molge palmata), are all more or less 
common in the vicinity of Edinburgh. The Natterjack Toad 
(Bufo calamita)—a species of decidedly western distribution 
in these islands—has been recorded for the extreme south- 
east corner of the district; but the record, now half a century 
old, requires confirmation. 
The following tables exhibit in a concise form the facts 
embodied in the above remarks. 
Class and Order, Britain. Scotland. Edinburgh. 
REPTiLt1a— 
1, Sauria, . : 3 2 2 
2. Ophidia, . , 3 lor ?2 lor?2 
otal : 6 3or?4 3 or! 4 
1 Mr G. A. Boulenger has recently given it as his cpinion (Zoologist, 1894, 
p- 10) that the specimen in question belonged to a North American species 
(Coronella doliata, L.)! 
