Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . 33 THE GREEN (Lacerta viridis.) Enlarged view of the side of the head, showing the form andarrangement of the plates.* Is the Green Lizard (Plate 2) really a native ofBritain ? That is the very knotty question whichwe desire to settle, both for our own satisfactionand that of our readers, but cannot divest our mindsof a lingering doubt whether it may not have de-scended to us in a similar manner to the shower ofedible frogs which Mr. Penney rai
Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . 33 THE GREEN (Lacerta viridis.) Enlarged view of the side of the head, showing the form andarrangement of the plates.* Is the Green Lizard (Plate 2) really a native ofBritain ? That is the very knotty question whichwe desire to settle, both for our own satisfactionand that of our readers, but cannot divest our mindsof a lingering doubt whether it may not have de-scended to us in a similar manner to the shower ofedible frogs which Mr. Penney rained down uponFoulmire. That this species has been found in GreatBritain, in an apparently wild state, is without adoubt, but how it came there is past rinding out. * Milne-Edwards in Ann. des. Sc. Nat., ser. i., vol. xvi., t. 7,f. 2. D 34 OUR REPTILES. If we turn over the pages of the earlier volumesof the Zoologist we here and there encounter littlefacts of a very stubborn nature, relative to the GreenLizard, in every instance guaranteed by some namewell known in the annals of science. One of theearliest of these notes is by Dr. Bromfield,* in whichhe state
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