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WARTY LIZARD. Class III. 



5. Warty. Lacertus aquaticus. Gesner 

 quad. ovip. 31. 



Salamandra aquatica. Raii 

 Syn. quad. 273. 



Lacerta palustris. L. cauda 

 lanceolata mediocri, pedibus 

 muticis palmis tetradactylis. 

 Lin. Syst. 370. 



Lacerta palustris. L. fusca, 

 cauda lanceolata mediocri, 

 maris dorsum cristatum ver- 

 no tempore, crista medio al- 

 tiore. Gm. Lin. 1065. Faun. 

 Suec. 281. 



Triton palustris. Laur. Am- 



phil. 3g. t. 4. /. 2. 

 Sheppard in Lin. Tr. vii. 52. 

 Great Water Newt. Shaw. 



Gen. Zool. iii. part I. 296. 



t. 83. Nat. misc. viii. 279. 

 Skrot-abborre, Gruffgrabbe. 



Faun. Suec. No. 281. 

 Lacerta Americana. Seh.Mus. 



i. tab. 8Q.fg.4, 5. 

 Salamandra alepidota verruco- 

 sa. Gronov. Zooph. No. 47. 

 La Salamandre a queue plate. 



De la Cepede. Hist, des 



Ovip. i. 471. 



Descrip- J_HE length of this species is six inches and 



TIOJT. . ... 



an half, of which the tail is three and a quarter. 

 The irides bright yellow; the head and begin- 

 ning of the* back flat and covered with small 

 pimples or warts, of a dark dusky color; the 

 sides with white ones; the belly, and the side 

 of the tail, are of. a bright yellow ; the first 

 spotted with black. The tail is compressed 

 sideways, very thin towards the upper edge, 

 and slender towards the end, The feet formed 

 like those of the preceding species. Its pace is 

 slow and crawling. 



This species we have frequently seen in the 



* The male is furnished with a thin fin-like process which 

 ejtends along the back. Ed. 



