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Ducks, and sixteen Pochards, a sharp frost soon filling the stalls. 

 Hundreds of Dunlin were shot, and other birds suffered in equal 

 proportion. Mr. Monement reports that at Morston a number 

 of Mallard came to feed where a stack had been thrashed. He 

 also observed a herd of eleven Swans, and about the same time 

 three Swans, perhaps out of the same flock, were shot. Many 

 Kingfishers, Green Woodpeckers, and Barn Owls — the last named 

 fat, the others very poor — were brought to our birdstuffers. On 

 the 20th also, Mr. Patterson saw seven Wood Larks at Yarmouth, 

 which a market gardener had just shot in the snow. 



Mr. G. Smith wrote from Yarmouth, Dec. 28th, that, owing 

 to the prolonged frost, the poor Black-headed Gulls were ready 

 to do anything to get food, and that a great many had been 

 caught in nets; one bird-catcher took fifty-six in one pull with 

 a clap-net, and altogether about 150 starved Gulls were brought 

 to Mr. Smith. Many of the ravenous birds were fed by the 

 charitable, and no one remembered to have seen them so daring 

 in approaching houses. 



ON THE HEKPETOLOGY OF THE GRAND DUCHY 



OF BADEN. 



By G. Norman Douglass. 



(Continued from p. 59.) 



3. Lacerta vivipara, Jacq. — Of this lizard comparatively few 

 Baden specimens have passed through my hands, and they 

 differed little in their coloration from others found on the Scotch 

 moors or in England. Though exhibiting a good deal of slight 

 individual variability, the only distinct variety in this part of 

 Germany which has attracted notice is the light-coloured L. 

 montana, Mikan, reported as occurring at Rippoldsau, in the 

 Schwarzwald. I made an excursion for the purpose of obtaining 

 adult specimens of this form, but the weather proved unfavourable, 

 and the few young I succeeded in capturing resembled the 

 typical form. 



The viviparous lizard appears generally distributed through- 

 out the Black Forest region (i. e., as far north as the Kiver Alb, 

 which flows within a mile of Karlsruhe), continuing its range, 

 after a considerable break, in the Odenwald. It is found plenti- 

 fully all round Baden-Baden (Teufelsmuhle, Herrenwies, Hornis- 



