2 SCALY LIZARD. Class III. 



The legs and feet were dufky ; on each foot were 

 five toes, furnifhed with claws. 



This fpecies is extremely nimble : in hot weather 

 it bafks on the fides of dry banks, or of old trees ; 

 but on being obferved immediately retreats to its 

 hole. 



The food of this fpecies, as of all the other 

 Englijh lizards, is infects : they themfelves of birds 

 of prey. Each of our lizards are perfectly harm- 

 lefs ; yet their form is what ftrikes one with dif- 

 guit, and has occafioned great obfcurity in their 

 hillory. 

 Othfr Related to this fpecies is the Guernfey lizard, 



which we are informed has been propagated in 

 England from fome originally brought from that 

 ifland. We have alfo heard of a green lizard 

 frequent near Farnham^ which probably may be of 

 that kind : but the mod uncommon fpecies we ever 

 met with any account of, is that which was killed 

 near F/ofcot^ in the parifh of Swinford, Worcefter- 

 Jhire, in 1741, which was two feet fix inches long, 

 and four inches in girth. The fore-legs were pla- 

 ced eight inches from the head ; the hind-legs five 

 inches beyond thofe: the legs two inches long: 

 the feet divided into four toes, each furnifhed with 

 a fharp claw. Another was killed at Penbury, in 

 the fame county. Whether thefe are not of exotic 

 defcent, and whether the breed continues, is what 

 we are at prefent uninformed of. 



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