The Zoologist— April, 1869. 1621 



Here Ray's supposed mistalie is revived and republished. My 

 third instance was published in the ' Zoologist' twenty years ago, by 

 as scrupulously honest and truthful a man as it has ever been my lot 

 to meet with in any walk in life, a man universally beloved and 

 respected. Dr. Arnold Bromfield. 



" I am told by very competent authority the Green Lizard has been 

 found to be very frequent, and even abundant, at or in the neighbour- 

 hood of Heme Bay. I may add that there can be no doubt about 

 the species, and that it is certainly not merely the smaller green 

 lizard of Poole, but identical with the species long knowu to inhabit 

 Guernsey, as my friend Professor Bell has received a specimen from 

 Heme Bay, but not in time to notice the discovery in the second 

 edition of his ' British Reptiles,' lately published. Mr. Bell supposed 

 L. viridis must be only naturalized in its Kentish locality, but the 

 difference of climate and latitude between Guernsey and Heme Bay 

 is not so great but that we may conceive it very possible this beautiful 

 reptile may be really indigenous to both places. It was only till very 

 recently that the nativity of the edible frog {Rana esculenta, L.) was 

 fully ascertained in England, although rumour had placed it long 

 since in our indigenous lists. If I am not mistaken, the Lacerta 

 viridis of Guernsey has been said to have been captured in this 

 country, in which case we have now a Similar confirmation of the fact, 

 as in the instance of the Rana esculenta." — William Arnold Bloom- 

 Jield, in ' Zoologist,^ p. 2707. 



Will my friend Mr. Bell kindly inform the readers of the ' Zoologist ' 

 whether the Heme Bay specimen was really Lacerta viridis. 



My next quotation is perhaps scarcely so much to the point, but still 

 the character of the writer gives it a claim to serious consideration. 



" Seven or eight years ago a schoolfellow of mine at Eton, a native 

 of Guernsey, assured me he had seen lizards in Devonshire precisely 

 similar to the green lizards of his own island, which latter, if I 

 remember right, he had often caught and kept in confinement. 

 Nearly two years since, a learned professor of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, mentioned that he had dissected a ' green lizard' brought by a 

 botanical party from the Clova Mountains, of which however the 

 remnants were not to be found, when search was, at my request, made 

 for them." — John Wolley, in ' Zoologist^ p. 2707. 



We now arrive at positive evidence of the capture of a specimen of 

 the green lizard near Dorking. On Friday evening, the 24th of April, 



