70 ANOLIUSCAROLINENSIS. 



Stationary for a moment, elevates and depresses its head several times, inflates 

 his gular sac, which now becomes of a bright vermilion, and then suddenly springs 

 at his enemy. After the first heats of spring have passed, they become less 

 quarrelsome, and many are seen quietly living together in the same neighbourhood; 

 they retain at all times the habit of inflating the sac, even when quietly basking 

 in the sun; and at those times the colouring of the animal has the liquid brilhancy 

 of the emerald. 



General Remarks. Catesby was the first who described this animal, under the 

 name of Green Lizard of Carolina,* but he also gives another plate of a similar 

 Lizard of Jamaica.! Linnaeus describes the Jamaica species (Lacerta viridis 

 Jamaicensis) as the Lacerta bullaris, and without fiirther reference. Daudin and 

 succeeding writers give an additional reference to the Green Lizard of Carolina; 

 which is the more remarkable, as Catesby himself seemed aware of the difference 

 between these animals, for he gives them diflferent figures and a diflerent geogra- 

 phical distribution. Cuvier was the first since Catesby to recognise the Carolina 

 Anolius as a distinct species, "from the very long flat muzzle and the black band 

 at the temples." It has already been remarked that this band disappears when 

 the animal assumes its greenest tint; we must therefore depend on the "long 

 flattened muzzle" chiefly in determining this species. 



identical with ours, has very well described the habits of the Carolina Anolius. Essai sur 

 I'Hist. Nat. de Saint Domingue: Paris, 1776, p. 348. 



* Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. tab. 65. t Catesby, loc. cit., vol. ii. tab. 66. 



