***-, 



FIGURE NO. 3 



THE NEW ZEALAND "LIZARD" 



[Sphenodon or Hatteria] 



This animal may well be called a "living fossil." It 

 is the sole survivor of an ancient group of reptiles — 

 the Rhynchocephalia, a very generalized group, not 

 very far off the aboriginal stock of reptiles from which 

 all other groups took their origin. The animal is one 

 to two feet in length ; it persists in some small islands 

 off the New Zealand coast; it hides in holes during 

 the day and hunts for small animals at night. It is the 

 last of its race. Its pineal body shows distinct evidence 

 of being or having been a median, upward-looking eye. 



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