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those ; the legs were two inches long : the feet 

 divided into four toes, each furnished with a 

 sharp claw. Another was killed at Penbury, 

 in the same county. Whether these are not 

 of exotic descent, and whether the breed con- 

 tinues, is what we are at present uninformed of.* 



Lacertus terrestris anguiformis Viperine Lizard. Sheppard in 2. Anguine. 

 in ericetis. Rail Syn. quad. Lin. Tr. vii. 51.? 



264. 



W E remain in obscurity in respect to this 

 species. It seems to be of that kind which con- 

 nects the serpent and lizard genus, having a long 

 and very slender body, and very small legs. 

 Such are the Seps, or Lacerta Chalcidica of Rail 

 Syn. quad. 272, the Lacerta anguina of Lin- 

 net us, 371, or that figured by Seba, torn. ii. tab. 

 68. under the name of Vermis serpent if or mis. 



[Mr. Sheppard, in the seventh volume of the 

 Linnean Transactions, thus describes the spe- 



* Some additional information seems necessary with respect to 

 the Lacerta CEdura, described by Mr. Sheppard in the seventh 

 volume of the Linnean Transactions, p. 50. before it is admitted 

 as a new species into the list of British Lizards. It is chiefly dis- 

 tinguished from the common Lizard by '.' the tail bulging out a 

 " little below the base, which gives it the appearance of having 

 " been cut off", and set on again ; on all the feet are five toes 

 " with nails. Its length four inches and an half." Ed. 



