LITTLE BROWN LIZARD. 
We should readily pronounce this Lizard^ 
to be the Lacertus Vulgaris, of Linnaeus ; the 
Lacertus Vulgaris Terrestri-s, Ventre Nigro 
Maculato, of Ray; and the Brown Lizard, of 
Pennant; but that Edwards represents it, un- 
questionably from nature, all over of a 
brownish colour, except two lines of a blueish 
colour passing down on each side of the back. 
It is," he also says, *^ spotted with black on 
the upper side ; and is of a lighter brown on 
the belly, which is without spots." This by 
no means agrees with the ** Ventre Nigro 
Maculato," of Ray; and the subsequent ac- 
count of Pennant- — The Brown Lizard," he 
says, is three inches long: the body slender j 
the tail long, slightly compressed, small, and 
taper ; that, and the upper part of the body, 
of a pale brown, marked on each side the back 
with a narrow black line reaching to the end 
of the tail ; the belly of a pale yellow, marked 
with small dusky spots ; and the toes four on 
the fore-feet, five on the hind -feet, and all 
without nails." Pennant mentions a Little 
Brown Lizard, called by Ray the Lacertus 
Parvus Terrestris, Fuscus, Oppido Rarus ; but 
neither 
