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was a young animal apparently in its second year. The general tint 

 was a pale yellowish drab or fawn-colour, with darker markings and 

 small brick-red spots. About the head and face were irregularly shaped 

 patches of a decided indigo-blue. Though the colouring of the young 

 is often much more lively and varied than in older individuals, I never 

 before met with a specimen showing any trace of the last mentioned 

 colour.— G. T. Rope (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 



Palmated Newt (Molge palmata) in Western Carnarvonshire and 

 Bardsey Island. — The Palmated Newt has a wider distribution in 

 Britain than the two commoner species, and is found in parts of Wales, 

 especially in the west, where the Crested and Smooth Newts do not 

 appear to occur. In 1887 Mr. C. Oldham and I found it at Porth 

 Ceiriad, near Abersoch, in Western Carnarvonshire (Zool. 1888, 

 p. 394) ; on June 17th, 1905, I came across it still further to the 

 west, close to Braich-y-pwll, the most westerly point in Lleyn. The 

 Newts were in some shallow pools, below marshy ground at the top of 

 the cliffs, at the side of the path which leads down to St. Mary's Well. 

 These pools, owing to the dry weather, did not cover many square 

 yards. Two days before I found Palmated Newts on Bardsey Island, 

 about two miles to the south-west of Braich-y-pwll. Near the ruins of 

 St. Mary's Abbey, on the island, there is a well of cool clear water, 

 which the inhabitants told us never fails, though in droughts many of 

 the other sources of water supply run dry. Two or three small hollows 

 have been made just below the well for the purpose of watering the 

 Sheep ; in the largest of these pools or hollows, only about a couple 

 of yards in diameter, there were a number of adult Newts. No other 

 batrachians, nor any of the reptiles, are known to occur on the island. 

 T. A. Cowakd (Bowdon, Cheshire). 



The Palmated Newt near Hastings. — So little is known of the dis- 

 tribution of our native Newts, that it may be worth while to state that 

 the Palmated form {Molge palmata) is of frequent occurrence in the 

 Hastings district. My determination of the species has been confirmed 

 by Mr. Piuskin Butterfield. From its general resemblance to the Smooth 

 Newt (M. vulgaris), the present species is doubtless often overlooked ; 

 it may, however, be recognized by the absence of pigment from the 

 throat, by the partially webbed hind feet, and by the presence (in the 

 male) of a filamentous process extending beyond the tail. This process 

 appears in the young Newts some days before the disappearance of the 

 gills. The larvae of M. cristata also have very long filaments, but these 

 are tapering, and not abrupt, as is the case with M. palmata. — Wilfrid 

 Ollis (Westwood, Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings). 



