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which no doubt found a plentiful supply of frogs about the 
margins of the Nor’ Loch and the Borough Loch, or in the 
pools and ditches to which these were ultimately reduced. 
The Nor’ Loch, which I need scarcely remind you lay in the 
hollow now occupied by the Waverley Station and Princes 
Street Gardens, was finally drained about the close of last 
century; the Borough Loch, which occupied the space now 
known as “The Meadows,” followed thirty or forty years 
later. 
[Buro caLAMITA, Laur. NATTERJACK TOAD. 
This species, whose only known Scottish habitats at the 
present day are on the shores of the Solway, is included in a 
list of Reptiles, etc., given in the “ New Statistical Account” 
of the parish of Cockburnspath and Oldcambus, which was 
drawn up by the Rev. Andrew Baird in 1854, The sentence 
containing the statement is as follows:—“<The Lacerta 
agilis, or nimble lizard, is occasionally seen in the sunny 
heaths, and the natter-jack (Lufo rubetra), we have seen one 
specimen of.” 
Until this record has been corroborated by the discovery 
of further examples in the district, I fear we must deny the 
species a full place on our list. Except in the south, its 
distribution in the British Isles is of a decidedly western 
type, and I much doubt if it occurs anywhere in the east of 
Scotland. Nevertheless a few small colonies may possibly 
exist, and all likely localities for them should be examined. 
The likely places are among the coast sandhills, or under 
stones near high-water mark. That the Natterjack once had 
a wide range in Scotland would seem probable from the fact 
that toad-remains found by Mr B.N. Peach in a cave in 
Assynt have been referred to this species. ] 
BuFoO VULGARIS, Laur. ComMMoN TOAD. 
The Toad, though not so numerous as the Frog, especially 
in the moorland districts, is well entitled to rank as one of 
our commoner animals. Being to a large extent nocturnal, 
it is apt to be regarded as less common than it really is. On 
