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Smooth Newt. (Local name Lezardc r/'m?^= Water lizard.) Confined to 

 Jersey, where it is extremely plentiful, being found in almost every pond 

 and stream throughout the Island. 



Palmated Newt. Occiu-s in Jersey only, and confined, as far as I can 

 ascertain, to the central and western parts of the island. I believe the 

 original local record of this species is my own. 



Common Frog". (I^ocal names, Guernsey, Raiiie ; Jersey, Rainotte.) (3ccurs 

 in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, but is nowhere so abundant as 

 in England or the Continent. It presents no local variation, and is absent 

 from Herm. 



Common Toad. (Local name as in France, Crapand.) Confined to Jersey 

 where it is extremely common and evenly distributed. It grows there to 

 a large size, specimens measuring five inches in length, and from four to 

 four and a half in breadth, exclusive of the limbs being by no means 

 uncommon. These dimensions, and some peculiarities of marking— a 

 beautiful marbling of buff, or sometimes white, upon the ordinary 

 brown ground serve to class it as a decided variety. The white marbling 

 is, however, well showm only in specimens that have just renewed their 

 sMn. 



SlOW-WOPm. (Local name, Orvv.) Occurs in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, 

 Herm and Jethou. It is very doubtful if it occurs in Sark. Mr. Derrick 

 says he has enquired about it for years, but has never heard of or seen one, 

 and in his opinion the iSlow-worm is absent from that island. It is fairly 

 common throughout the islands named, and presents no local charac- 

 teristic features. 



Wall Lizard. (Local name Lharde (jrisc.) This beautiful little lizard 

 is found only in Jersey where it is confined to the North-Eastern coast, 

 \VL. : from Bonne-nuic Bay eastward to Gorey, a stretch of about six 

 miles, and its range does not extend much more than a hundred yards 

 iuland, that is to say it does not reach to the table-land above the cliffs. 

 Tins may be thus explained : It is essentially a cliff, rock, and boulder 

 dweller, with also a fondness for old rubble walls, whence it takes 

 its name, and these conditions do not obtain on the table-land from one 

 hundred to three hundred feet above the shore. Whereas from Gorey, 

 southward, is a sandy rockless bay (the Bay of Grouville) which here 

 forms the barrier to its extension. 



MTiy it does not spread Westward along the North Coast, where the 

 necessary conditions still occur is not obvious, but it certainly becomes 

 scarce, and finally disappears a little to the west of Bonne -nuit. Al- 

 though still very common its numbers are now much reduced in its former 

 greatest stronghold, Bouley Bay. The reason for this decimation is due 

 to vagrant cats which are now living there, as I have explained in a 

 pre\'ious paper. [Lizarda of the Chanxel lalaads, Trans. Guernsey Nat. 

 Science Soc, 1907.) This species is generally known to be remarkably 

 variable in coloration, adapting its appearance to its environment with 

 beautiful precision, so that any variation that may be manifest in local 

 specimens is not necessarily due to insulation. 



Green Lizard. (Local name like the French, but always given in feminine 

 gender, viz. : Lezarde Verte.) Occurs in Guernsey and Jersey only. In 

 spite of incessant and wholesale persecution — for the dealers have it in 

 much demand— this lovely lizard is still common in Jersey, and in 

 several localities it may be described as abundant. In this species we 

 have a decided case of modification, for although identical as a species 

 with the Continental form, it presents such characters in coloration as to 

 render it a well decided variety, within which again there is a sub- 

 variation. I have set out these details at length in the paper just referred 

 to, and there attempted a classification of the sub -varieties ; but one 

 striking feature may be repeated here, viz. : the four conspicuous white 



