GREAT WATER-NEWT, 



Lacerta Palustris. L. nigricans, laterihus albido-punctatis, ahdo* 



mine croceo maculis incequalihus nigris. 

 Blackish Newt, with the sides speckled with white ; the abdo^- 



men orange, with irregular black spots. 

 Lacerta palustris. L. cauda lanceolata mediocri, pedibus muticis, 



palmis tetradactylis. Lin. Syst, Nat. p. 370. 

 The warted Newt. Nat. Misc. 8. pi. 279- 



The larger or warted Water-Newt is consider^ 

 ably allied to the Salamander in its general ap- 

 pearance, though of inferior size, and marked by 

 a different distribution of colours. It also differs 

 from that species in the highly conspicuous dorsal 

 crest, or elevated and irregularly sinuated process 

 with which the male is furnished. This species, 

 when full grown, measures from about five and a 

 half to six inches in length, and sometimes ra- 

 ther more. Its colour on the upper parts is an 

 extremely dark or blackish brown, the sides being 

 marked with numerous, small, scattered, whitish 

 specks or granulations : the under parts are of a 

 bright orange-colour, variegated with numerous, 

 large, irregular spots or patches of deep black : 

 the tail is of a flattened form, with thin or sharp 

 edges, and with an acute termination : on each 

 side the tail, in the male, is a silvery-white, broad 

 band or stripe, accompanied by a blueish tinge : 

 this lateral tail-stripe, as well as the dorsal crest 

 or process, is generally far less conspicuous, and 



