﻿NOTES 
  AND 
  QUERIES. 
  391 
  

  

  loud 
  croaking 
  excited 
  some 
  alarm 
  and 
  astonishment. 
  In 
  the 
  year 
  

   1S94 
  or 
  1895 
  we 
  imported 
  fifty 
  more, 
  again 
  from 
  Berlin, 
  and 
  these 
  

   were 
  put 
  into 
  a 
  small 
  artificially 
  constructed 
  pond 
  in 
  our 
  garden 
  here. 
  

   Three 
  or 
  four 
  of 
  these 
  still 
  survive, 
  and 
  have 
  spent 
  ten 
  years 
  round 
  

   the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  pond, 
  plunging 
  in 
  when 
  one 
  approaches 
  them. 
  They 
  

   are 
  much 
  more 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  water 
  than 
  our 
  other 
  

   species. 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  appear 
  until 
  May, 
  long 
  after 
  the 
  other 
  Frogs 
  

   have 
  spawned 
  and 
  left 
  the 
  ponds. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  their 
  spawn 
  in 
  our 
  

   pond 
  in 
  June 
  or 
  July, 
  and 
  also 
  tadpoles, 
  which 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  those 
  

   of 
  It. 
  esculenta 
  : 
  but 
  I 
  cannot 
  say 
  whether 
  any 
  reached 
  maturity. 
  If 
  

   they 
  did 
  so, 
  the 
  young 
  Frogs 
  must 
  have 
  migrated. 
  In 
  the 
  warm 
  

   summer 
  evenings 
  these 
  Frogs 
  reward 
  us 
  with 
  (to 
  my 
  mind) 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   most 
  melodious 
  concerts 
  in 
  nature. 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  

   extended 
  their 
  range 
  to 
  Ockham, 
  which 
  is 
  at 
  least 
  six 
  miles 
  from 
  

   Chilworth, 
  with 
  the 
  North 
  Downs 
  between 
  and 
  a 
  rather 
  waterless 
  

   country. 
  — 
  Harold 
  Russell 
  (The 
  Ridgeway, 
  Shere, 
  Guildford). 
  

  

  Natterjack 
  Toad 
  (Bufo 
  calamita) 
  in 
  North 
  Wales. 
  — 
  In 
  the 
  course 
  

   of 
  collecting 
  materials 
  for 
  a 
  fauna 
  of 
  North 
  Wales, 
  I 
  have 
  received 
  

   from 
  several 
  correspondents 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  Natterjack 
  

   in 
  Denbighshire. 
  Apparently 
  it 
  is 
  confined 
  to 
  a 
  belt 
  of 
  land 
  stretching 
  

   along 
  the 
  coast 
  between 
  the 
  estuaries 
  of 
  the 
  Conway 
  and 
  Clwyd 
  

   Rivers, 
  resorting 
  in 
  numbers 
  to 
  certain 
  ponds 
  during 
  the 
  breeding 
  

   season. 
  Whilst 
  staying 
  at 
  Prestanyn 
  in 
  September, 
  I 
  obtained 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  there 
  among 
  the 
  sand-hills, 
  and 
  kept 
  it 
  alive 
  for 
  several 
  

   days. 
  I 
  also 
  found 
  a 
  dead 
  one 
  near 
  the 
  same 
  spot. 
  This 
  shows 
  that 
  

   the 
  species 
  extends 
  its 
  range 
  into 
  Flintshire 
  some 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  

   Clwyd. 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  is 
  known, 
  it 
  occurs 
  nowhere 
  else 
  in 
  North 
  Wales. 
  — 
  

   H. 
  E. 
  Forrest 
  (Hillside, 
  Bayston 
  Hill, 
  Shrewsbury). 
  

  

  Common 
  Newt 
  : 
  does 
  it 
  occur 
  in 
  Carnarvon 
  or 
  Anglesey 
  ? 
  — 
  So 
  far 
  

   as 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  ascertain, 
  all 
  the 
  small 
  Newts 
  in 
  these 
  counties 
  

   belong 
  to 
  the 
  Palmate 
  species 
  (Molye 
  palmata), 
  though 
  the 
  Great 
  

   Crested 
  (M. 
  cristata) 
  also 
  occurs 
  in 
  Carnarvon. 
  Any 
  actual 
  observa- 
  

   tions 
  on 
  this 
  point 
  will 
  be 
  very 
  welcome. 
  — 
  H. 
  E. 
  Forrest 
  (Hillside, 
  

   Bayston 
  Hill, 
  Shrewsbury). 
  

  

  EEPTILIA. 
  

  

  Some 
  Habits 
  of 
  a 
  Polynesian 
  Lizard 
  (Lygosoma 
  cyanurum). 
  — 
  

   During 
  my 
  former 
  voyage 
  on 
  the 
  R.Y.S. 
  ' 
  Valhalla,' 
  as 
  naturalist 
  to 
  

   the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Crawford 
  (1902-8), 
  we 
  visited 
  several 
  island 
  groups 
  in 
  the 
  

   South 
  Pacific. 
  Lygosoma 
  cyanurum 
  was 
  collected 
  or 
  observed 
  in 
  the 
  

   following 
  islands 
  : 
  Easter 
  Island, 
  Pitcairn, 
  Tahiti, 
  Tutuila 
  and 
  Upolu 
  

  

  