Excerpt from Half-Hours in the Green Lanes: A Book for a Country Stroll Disappointments of an angler - Prejudice against newts Superstitions concerning ditto - The Amphibia - Their phy siological structure - The Great Water Newt - Its habits Smooth N ewt - Development of eggs of ditto - Its Tadpoles - Their natural history - The Palmate Newt - Frogs and Toads - Distribution of reptiles - Why there are so few rep tiles in Ireland - Evidence afforded by reptiles to geological reasoning - Larval stages of a young frog-voracity of Frog Tadpoles - The Edible frog-the common Toad - Prejudices concerning ditto - The Natterjack - How a Toad moults Toad and Frog Spawn - Geological antiquity of reptiles Relations between reptiles and birds - The Ringed Snake -eggs of ditto - Habits of ditto - Snake and Viper - The Smooth Snake - Antiquity of ditto - Physiological structure of Viper's teeth - Habits of the Viper - Antiquity of Snakes o - How Snakes crawl - The Blind-worm - Superstitions con useted with ditto Common and Sand Lizards Their. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.