IGUANAS. 



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which was kept in a hot-house near Bristoh It 

 had refused to eat insects and other kinds of 

 animal food, until happening to be near some 

 kidney-bean plants, it began to eat their leaves, 

 and was thenceforward supplied with these plants. 

 Other accounts, as we shall presently see, de- 

 scribe them in their native regions as feeding on 

 fruits. 



Some writers have enumerated many species of 

 this genus, but the eminent herpetologists above 

 mentioned reduce the whole to three, all of which 

 are widely spread over South America and the 



IGUANA. 



Antilles. The most common is Iguana tuherculata 

 (Laurenti), which, in five stages of its life, has 



