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The Frilled Lizard. Chlamydosaurus Kingii, Gray^ King^s 

 Voy. Aust. ii. t. I, Zool. Misc. 53. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 441, 

 t. 45. Voy. a Pol. Sud, t. 6. Griffith, A. K. ix. t. 



Fulvous, obscurely brown varied. 



a. Stufifed specimen. Presented by Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



6, c. Adult and young, stuffed. Port Essingtou. From Mr. 

 Gould's collection. 



dy e. Adult aud young, in spirits. Port Essington. From Mr. 

 Gould's collection. 



/. Adult, in spirits. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collec- 

 tion. 



g. Young, in spirits. Grey, with narrow irregularly waved and 

 twisted black streaks, forming broad bands across the back, 

 limbs and tail ; the bands are indistinctly marked upon the 

 body, but more distinctly on the limbs and tail, where they are 

 to be seen of a brown colour on a much more grown specimen : 

 the head and face marked with symmetrical twisted and curv- 

 ed lines. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



21. Hatteria, Gray. 



Head quadrangular, covered with small scales. Throat lax, 

 with a cross fold behind. Nape and back with a crest of compress- 

 ed spines. Body covered with small and larger scales. Belly and 

 under side of tail with large, squarish, keelless, flat scales, placed 

 in cross series. Tail compressed, triangular, covered with small 

 scales, and with a ridge of large compressed spines. Legs strong. 

 Toes 5-5, short, strong, cylindrical, slightly webbed at the base, 

 covered above and below with small scales. Claws short, blunt. 

 Femoral pores none, Preanal scales small, a few of them are 

 pierced in the centre. 



The TuATERA or Narara. Hatteria punctata, Gray, Z. M. 

 72. Dieffenh. N. Z. ii. 204. Zool. Erebus and Terror, Rept. t. 

 Gigantic Lizard, Coo'k's Third Voy. i. 153. Guana, Polack, N. 

 Z. i. 317. 



Olive ; sides and limbs with minute white specks, beneath yel- 

 lowish ; the spines of the nuchal and dorsal crests yellow, of the 

 caudal brown ; scales of the back, head, tail and limbs small, gra- 

 nular, nearly uniform ; the irregular folds in the skin are fringed 

 at the top with a series of rather large scales ; an oblique ridge of 

 larger scales on each side of the base of the tail, and a few shorter 

 longitudinal ridges of rather smaller ones on each side of the up- 

 per part of the tail. 



a. In spirits. New Zealand. From Dr. Dieffenbach's collection. 



b. Stuffed. New Zealand. Presented by F. Knox, M.D. 



c. Skeleton of 6. New Zealand. Presented bv F. Knox, M.D. 



