ANOLIUS CAROLINENSIS. 7| 



usually remains stationary for a moment, elevates and depresses its head several 

 times, distends his dewlap, 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 distending the dewlap, even 

 when quietly basking in the sun; and at those times the colouring of the animal 

 has the liquid brilliancy 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.t Linnaeus describes the Jamaica species (Lacerta 

 viridis Jamaicensis) as the Lacerta bullaris, and without further 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 different figures, and a 

 different geographical distribution. Cuvier was the first since Catesby to recog- 

 nise 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," and the distance of the nostrils from the 

 snout, chiefly, in determming this species. 



Dumeril and Bibron suppose this animal to be common in Cuba; and Cocteau 

 has given a figure and description of the Anolius Carolinensis in Ramon de 

 Lasasra's "Histoire de I'Isle de Cuba." 



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Now, if the colours of that plate were taken from a living specimen, and are 

 true to nature, the animal certainly is not identical with ours. In Cocteau's 

 figure, the shoulders and neck are represented as indigo-blue, a colour never seen 

 in any part of the Anolius Carohnensis with us. Again, the sack or dewlap is 



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



