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breathe only by lungs. The tongue is small and free, and the 

 mouth is provided with two rows of teeth. There will be 

 observed, if we examine a crested newt, to be four toes only to 

 each foot in front and iive on each foot behind. All water- 

 newts produce oviparously, and the males can be distinguished 

 by having a large dorsal crest on the back and tail. This crest 

 appears during the breeding season, and partly goes as soon as it 

 is over. Newts develop very similarly to frogs ; but they retain 

 their larval tail, and the fore-limbs always appear before the 

 hind-limbs. The eggs are laid singly on water-plants, often 

 surrounded by the leaf. Like toads and frogs they live upon 

 many noxious creatures. 



Two other species of Newts are recorded as British — namely, 

 the Palmate Newt ^ {Lophinus pulmatus, Dum. and Bibr.), and 

 Gray's Banded Newt {Ommatotriton vittatus, Gray), according 

 to Cooke. ^ The former is recorded from Edinburgh and the 

 Pentland Hills. The latter was found near London. 



1 ' Zoologist,' May 3, 1848. J. Wooley. 



2 'OurKeptilesandEatrachians.' M.C.Cooke. P. 168, 1903. 



