VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 



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closed at pleasure, muscular effort, apparently, pulling their convex 

 outer borders away from the mesial plane and their inner concave 

 borders. These muscles relaxing, the spiracles close by the 

 approximation of their own walls, and thus during sleep they are 

 seen closed, and after death (post mortem rigidity having ceased) 

 the spiracles are found rigidly closed. 



In the following Table will be found the position of the s. s. 

 ' Eclipse,' the surface temperature of the sea, and the temperature 

 of air, at noon, on the different days on which any event of 

 zoological interest is recorded as having occurred : — 



Date. 



April 23 

 „ 24 

 „ 25 

 „ 26 

 „ 27 

 „ 28 

 „ 29 

 30 

 1 

 6 

 11 

 18 

 19 

 21 

 26 

 29 



Ship's Position. 



May 



Lat. 

 62° 14' N. 

 64° 38' 

 64° 49' 

 66° 5' 

 67° 55' 

 70° 14' 

 71° 54' 

 72° 38' 

 74° 20' 

 76° 38' 

 0' 



57' 



53' 



40' 



41' 



78° 

 79° 

 78° 

 78° 

 79° 



79° 24' 



Long. 

 0° 25' W. 

 0°25' 

 2° 33' E. 

 0°45' 

 1° 53' W. 

 2° 23' 

 2° 34' 

 1°49' 

 1°29' 



1° 



4° 20' E. 

 4° 6' 

 1° 



2° 0' 

 2° 2' 



Temperature. 



Air. 

 48° Fh. 

 39° 

 34° 

 33° 

 35° 

 32° 

 31° 

 34° 

 27° 

 30° 

 20° 

 22° 

 27° 

 27° 

 27° 

 16° 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF 



LEICESTERSHIRE. 



By Montagu Brown k, F.Z.S. 

 Curator, Town Museum, Leicester. 



(Concluded from Zool. 18S6, p. 415.) 



Class Eeptilia. 

 Order Saijria. — Fam. Lacertid^. 



Lacerta agilis, Linn. Sand Lizard. — Harley writes : — " This 

 species is liable to much variation in colour. It has been met 



ZOOLOGIST.— FEB. 1887. F 



