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satisfactorily to ascertain the females. A more full account 
will, I hope, before long be furnished by Mr Bell, who had 
specimens of the same, or a similar Newt, sent to him from 
Devonshire several years ago. It seems to occur generally 
round Edinburgh, as far as my walks extend. Yesterday 
(May ist) I saw this, and no other species, during a ramble 
in the Pentland Hills.” 
From Wolley’s description the editor of the Zoologist—the 
late Edward Newman—and M. Julian Deby had no difficulty 
in recognising the Newt as the true palmipes or palmata of 
Continental authors. 
In the autumn of the same year Wolley discovered the 
species in the north of Sutherland, thus indicating for it a 
very wide range in the country. Since then it has been 
recorded from other localities, both north and south, but its 
Scottish distribution is still very imperfectly known—the 
whole of the records being easily counted on one’s fingers. 
In the Edinburgh district I find it more widely distributed 
than either of the other species; and, being abundant where 
it occurs, it is to be regarded as the most common of the 
three. On the plains and less elevated parts of the district, 
all three are often to be found in the same pond ; but on the 
more upland parts the present one is, in my experience, alone 
to be met with. 
Within the last two or three years I have been at con- 
siderable trouble to ascertain the extent of its distribution in 
the district, and have been able to satisfy myself that it is 
both generally dispersed and abundant. On our moorlands 
it would appear, from Wolley’s remarks, to have been even 
more numerous in his time than now, which is not to be 
wondered at, in view of the extent to which these wilds have 
been dried by drainage in the interval. 
The following list of localities, from which I have recently 
(1894 unless otherwise stated) critically examined many ex- 
amples, will serve to show how widely it is dispersed :—Bave- 
law Moss, near Balerno, in pools, April 1889 and May 1894, 
onlyspeciesobserved; Loganlee,in ditch, May 1888, only species 
present; The Bush, near Rosslyn, in weedy pond, along with 
the two previous species, 28th March, adults common, and 
