CLASS REP TIL I A. 
TESTITDINATA. 
The Loggerhead Turtle, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. iii. p. 85, pi. 23 ; 
Chelonia Caouana , Schweigger; Testudo Caretta, Linn., 
Has been taken alive on the coast, as mentioned in the following note, 
which I published in the Annals of Natural History, vol. v. p. 8. 
“ To the kindness of H. H. Dombrain, Esq., of Dublin, I owe the op- 
portunity of examining a turtle of this species hitherto unnoticed on the 
British shores, which was obtained on the coast of Donegal in May, 1838, 
and soon afterwards came into his possession. The specimen, about a foot 
in length, was taken by a man engaged in collecting sea-weed for manure, 
and who, finding the hook at the end of the long pole used for ‘ haul- 
ing in the rack ’ had caught in something, carefully drew it towards him, 
when the captive proved to be a living turtle, whose eye the hook had 
entered. Dr. It. Ball informs me that a turtle of this specie^, in his col- 
lection, was taken alive in the sea near Youghal ; but he has been in- 
clined to regard it merely as an individual washed off the deck of a vessel, 
or one that had escaped from the cord which was intended to secure it, 
when (as is a common custom on board ship) it may have been committed 
to the sea for the benefit of a swim. However, as both the specimens 
which have been procured on the Irish coast are of the same species, and 
one which according to Dumeril and Bibron is very common in the 
Mediterranean, and of occasional occurrence in the Atlantic Ocean, they 
may by the natural influence of winds and waves have been carried to 
our shores. This remark would, from the circumstance of its frequenting 
the same seas, likewise apply to the much rarer species, the Leathery Tur- 
tle, Sphargis coriacea , which has been taken on the English coast. The 
Hawk’s-Bill Turtle, Chelonia imhricata , now included in the British Fauna, 
may, more probably than the other two species, have been washed off the 
decks of vessels or outlived their wreck, its native abode being so far re- 
mote from the British seas as the West Indies and the Indian Ocean.” * 
The Common Lizard, or Viviparous Lizard, Zootoca vivipara, 
Wagl. Bell; Lacerta agilis , Berkenh. Jenyns, 
Is common in suitable localities throughout the island. 
I have seen specimens from all quarters ; and the result of my examina- 
tions of several of these appears in the following note from my Journal : — 
* “All the localities noted by Dumeril and Bibron, except Havanna, are 
within, or bordering on, the Indian Ocean .” — Erpetologie Generale, tome ii. 
p. 551. 
