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to propel the heavy body. Young ones were found concealed under 



rubbish." 



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Hylodes martinicensis D. & B. 



Port Lucea and Blue Peak. 

 Lithodytes lentus Cope. 



A single example of this handsome black and orange tree- toad 

 was taken at Port Lucea clinging to a shrub overhanging a stream. 



Xiphocercus valenciennei D. & B. 



Port Morant. 



"This fine species was rarely met with and was collected only at 

 Port Morant and Port Antonio, Jamaica. At the former place 

 lizards of all kinds are uncommon owing to the abundance of the 

 mongoose, which animal has exerted a marked influence on the 

 reptilian fauna of Jamaica. Snakes of all kinds have been ex- 

 terminated so completely that we failed to find a single specimen. 

 The same is true of the larger ground- inhabiting lizards. 



The present species lives on and about the trunks of cocoanut 

 trees." 



Anolis grahamii Gray. 



Port Morant; Port Antonio; Port Lucea. 



"Notwithstanding the mongoose, this species is generally abundant 

 about the coast of Jamaica, and on Grand Cayman, though noticeably 

 more so in thickly settled districts, where they are familiarly known as 

 the clucking lizards, and welcomed into houses, over the walls and ceil- 

 ings of which they run with apparent ease. Their habits were studied 

 about Kingston and elsewhere. At midday in the hot sunshine along 

 fences they are seen at their best. They extend and retract the 

 brilliant scarlet goitre in a regular rhythmical way as a flattened 

 fold, the body meantime passing through a remarkable series of color 

 transitions from rich brown or almost a chocolate color, through pale 

 browns, grays, dull greens to bright blue-greens, some individuals 

 retaining more of one color, some more of another, sometimes plain, 

 sometimes spotted, until one almost wearies in counting the variations 

 and changes. The colors are more or less related at any moment to 

 the colors of surrounding objects. This is a very active lizard which 

 runs with great swiftness along the fences and branches of trees, often 

 taking flying sidelong leaps of surprising length, but clinging surely 

 by means of the adhesive disks, by which they are enabled to cling 



