2 4 BROWN LIZARD. Class III; 



perfectly formed, and had not the lead veftiges 

 of fins; fo that circumftance, joined to their being 

 found in a dry place, remote from water, makes us 

 imagine them to have never been inhabitants of that 

 element, as it is certain many of our lizards are in 

 their firft ftate. 



At that period they have a fin above and below 

 their tail ; that on the upper part extends along the 

 back as far as the head, but both drop off as foon 

 as the animal takes to the land, being then no 

 longer of any ufe. 



Befides thefe circumftances that attend them in 

 form of a larve, Mr. Ellis * has remarked certain 

 pennated fins at the gills of one very common in 

 mod of our (lagnating waters, and which is fre- 

 quently obferved to take a bait like a fifh. 



9. Brown. Lacertus vulg. terreftris ven- culatis, palmis tetrada&ylis, 



tre tiigro maculate Rail dorfo linea duplici fufca. 



Jyn. quad. 264. Lin. Jyfi. 370. Faun. Suec. 



L. vulgaris. L. cauda tere- No. 283. 

 ti mediocri, pedibus ungui- 



T HIS is three inches long: the body (lender; 

 the tail long, (lightly comprefTed, fmall and 

 taper-, that and the upper part of the body of a 

 pale brown, marked on each fide the back with a 



* Phil Tran. Vol. LVI. P. 191. 



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