166 Rev. L. Giiilding on the Zoology of 



mnlarum tectae. Crista squamarum productarum dorsum totum occu- 

 pans,; (feminse minor.) Caput subquadratum. Lingua carnosa, apice 

 emarginata. Palear gutturale (maris) contractile, maximum, compres^ 

 sum ; inter amores ramo filiformi ossis hyoidis extensile ; feminse palear 

 spurium. Aures squama maxima clausi. Os parietale foramine con- 

 tracto perforatum, squama parvula obtecto. Denies apicibus triangula- 

 ribus, serrulatis. Pedes validissimi. Digiti longi, quinque. Ungues 

 magni, jecmm • jFemoro subtiis ordine unico tuberculorum.* 



Iguana tuberculata, Laur., Cuv, 



I. corpore viridi : cauda fasciis distinctis nigris : lateribus maculis ob- 

 soletis nigris, flavis : collo tuberculato, nigro, purpureo azureoque varie- 

 gato : crista guise denticulata, dorsali maxima pectinata : tuberculo in- 

 ternasali : callis femoralibus 17. 



Lacerta iguana, Linn, a Gmel., p. 1062, ubi synonyma nmlta. 

 . JJiguans ordinaire. Daud. 



I/Igmme. Lacep. 



Common Guana, Shaw. Sloane, Hist. Jam. p. 333, pi. 273, fig. 1, 



Habitat longitudine 4-5 pedum frequens in Insulis Caribaeis, insectis 

 victitans ; fistulando saepe servis nostris in laqueum allicitur. Arboribus 

 nonnunquam dormitat vel praedam expectat. Subito capta ictus diros 

 sanguinolentos cauda acuta (quasi ense) dirigit. 



Animal omnino pulcherrimum. PuUus pulchrior, coloribus vividis, 

 mox saturatioribus, obscuris. 



On the western or leeward coast of St. Vincent, the Guana occurs in 

 great abundance. While passing in my canoe, I have shot as many as 

 eight in a single spot which they frequent, to the great joy of my negro 

 boatmen, who value them beyond measure. The Creoles, who alone eat 

 them, cook them as a boiled rabbit, which they are said to equal in de- 



* These tubercles, or rather round sacs, have only a connection with the 

 skin, in which they are deeply imbedded, projecting internally when it is re- 

 moved. They are filled with a fatty substance, harder than suet, and may pos- 

 sibly answer the same purpose in this animal as the calli of the Camel, while 

 tyreepipg or resting on the parched sands or rocks of our coasts. 



