Class 4. AMPHIBIA. 
Order BATRACHIA URODELA. 
Family SALAMANDRIDiE. 
Triton cristatus, Laur. Great-crested Newt, 
Kot uncommon. Wolley recorded it, and Messrs. Alston and 
Harvie-Brown have met with it on several occasions near 
Loch Assynt, and the latter gentleman once close to Loch 
Inver. Met with also once in Glencassley by Buckley in 
1875 or 1876. 
Triton taeniatus (Schneid.). Smooth Newt. 
mot uncommon. 
Triton palmipes (Latr.). Palmated Newt. 
The only record of this species as having been obtained in 
Sutherland is that by Mr. Wolley, who wrote in the 
Zoologist (1848, p. 2265), "I have to report the existence 
of our recently ascertained newt on the extreme north of 
the island. On the 1st August I found several females 
and one male iii a little fresh-water peaty pool a few 
hundred yards from the high-water mark on the side of 
the hills which rise from Loch EriboU, and on the west 
side of the loch. It is an inlet of the sea about 16 miles 
to the east of Cape Wrath, on the north coast of Suther- 
