In Scotland it is much more rare than in England; but in certain parts of Ireland, as around Castlemaine and Valentia Harbours in Co. Kerry, it is plentiful and known by the name of Natchet, which is probably an Irish corruption of Natterjack. In his bright and entertaining "Seventy Years of Irish Life," Mr. W. R. Le Fanu gives a native explanation of their continued presence in Kerry, in spite of St. Patrick's activities: "Notwithstanding all this, there still exists a species of Toad (the Natchet, I think) in the barony of Iveragh, in the west of Kerry. I was fishing in the Carah river the first time I saw them. I said to two countrymen, who were standing by, 'How was it that these Toads escaped Saint Patrick?' 'Well, now, yer honour,' said one of them, 'it's what I'm tould that when Saint Patrick was down in these parts he went up the Reeks, and when he seen what a wild and dissolute place Iveragh was, he wouldn't go any further; and that's the rason them things does be here still.' 'Well now, yer honour,' said the other fellow, 'I wouldn't altogether give into that, for av coorse the saint was, many's the time, in worse places than Iveragh. It's what I hear, yer honour, that it was a lady that sent them from England in a letter fifty or sixty years ago.'" The Natterjack is found on the Continent from Denmark and Sweden to Gibraltar. As we have naturalised representatives of the Continental Frogs here, so we have an isolated colony of the European Midwife Toad (_Alytes obstetricans_), established many years ago in what was then a nurseryman's garden at Bedford. The circumstances attending its introduction are not known, but the colony still exists. The female lays from twenty to fifty bright yellow eggs connected in a long string, which the male entangles around his thighs and retires with them to his hole until the embryos have reached the tadpole stage--a period of about six weeks. At the proper time he seeks the water, when the tadpoles escape from the eggs, and complete their development much after the manner of Common Toad tadpoles. [Illustration: _Pl. 108A._ _M 172._ Male in bridal attire. *Smooth Newt.* Molge vulgaris.] [Illustration: _Pl. 108B._ _M 172._ Male, underside. *Smooth Newt.* Molge vulgaris.] [Illustration: _Pl. 109A._ _M 173._ Example with additional right forelimb. *Smooth Newt.*] [Illustration: _Pl. 109B._ _M 173._ Cast-off skin. *Smooth Newt.*] *Crested Newt* (_Molge cristata_, Laurent).