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TRINITY COLLEGE

DUBLIN

Nov. 1. 1879.

My dear Wallace

I entrust you with Peter's²[sic] letter of this time five years. which will I think satisfy you about the two Coecilies — you will perceive the specimens (mine) were compared with those in Paris. ^{Peters does} not ^{say so} & as this was meant to be a chapter in my book I am anxious to be very correct. Have you W. H. Smith Tailed amphibians³ he comments p 126 on this strange geographical distribution — I also in animal Life. I sent you the sheet & hope when really out you may [2] be sent a copy.

If I have specimens & I think these. but they are covered up with an avalanche of the Challenger Alcyonaria — of C. rostrala I shall send them to Gunther.⁴ I felt sure he had taken some of mine – (Meoodlente)

As to your queries —

Zootoca viviparea. certainly not uncommon with us — we have no other lizard. fine warm June days in sunshine I would always in certain places. Shew them from —

Bufo calamita. Is our only toad. called Natterjack[.] It is very local. being confined to a small sandy district. Rossbegh [sic] [3] in Kerry. But is common where found there is a tradition that it came from Spain. see Mag Nat Hist. vol 9. p 316 (1836)⁵ but then 'they say' of every out of the ^way thing that is found in the S.W. It is however curious that this toad has never spread far — & yet the frog is [illeg.] going to write every where. But this is not so for I would call it very rare in the S. West — for except Achill. do I think they have ever as yet reached to any of our large W. or S.W Islands —

Triton punctatus is common — or pallipes — If this be a good species [illeg.] uncertain of Irish.

Do not overlook my Seychelles Bat Coleura

Ever yours | E P Wright⁶ [signature]