Class 4. AMPHIBIA. 



Order BATRACHIA URODELA. 

 Family SALAMANDRID^. 



Molga palmata {Lanr.), Pal mated Newt. 



Common. Generally distributed. Often met with around Auchenblae, 

 whence I have had specimens sent for identification. Mr. D. Dewar 

 does not consider them very common about Loch Tay side {in lit., 

 April 27, 1904), but they do occur on the north side at Fearnan 

 (W. Evans, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1893, p. 118), and doubtless at 

 other localities. Murthly is another " plotted " locality whence there 

 are specimens in the Perth Museum. But it is scarcely necessary 

 to define the distribution exactly. AVe know that they occur here 

 and there, and probably more generally than recorded, in the north- 

 east, west, south-west, south, and south-east, as weU as at the central 

 localities^quoted above. I am not aware of it, however, in the north- 

 west, though I would expect it certainly about Loch Eigheach on the 

 Moor of Rannoch, and at other places which could be named. 



Molga cristata, Lj.ur. Crested Newt. 



This species has been obtained at Blairgowrie, whence specimens were 

 sent to the British Museum in August 1893 (G. A. Boulenger in lit. 

 to ^y. Eagle Clarke, August 16, 1893). 



I am indebted to my friend Mr. W. Eagle Clarke for this addition 

 to the list for Tay. 



Order BATRACHIA ANURA. 

 Family BUFONID^. 



Bufo vulgaris, Laur. Common Toad. 



Generally distributed and abundant. 



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