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of its head to below its mouth aud its feet were also 

 clogged. As the clay got dry the chameleon could neither 

 open its moutli nor climb. My wife and daughter there- 

 fore softened tlie clay with lukewarm water and then 

 scraped it oil', replacing the chameleon in the rose bush, 

 where it remained till tlie following day noon, when I 

 saw it walk away. 



On the evening of llie l.'Uh March, exactly twenty-one 

 days afrei' the eggs had been deposited, I noticed a 

 circular hole ab(mt half an incli in diameter at the s^mt 

 where the chameleon had dug. The small hole had 

 evidently been made from below, upwards, as there was 

 no trace of loose soil on the surface, so I presumed that 

 the eggs had hatched, althougli at the time I could not 

 find any young chameleons. 1 waited until the IGth 

 .Mni'cli when the small vertical iiold had fallen in and by 

 IIkit time we had found four quite small chameleons on 

 the sui-i-ounding shrnbs and in the grass. These young 

 ones had a com])aratively large head and a very slender 

 IxmIv and a thin long tail, a jaunty jerky action and the 

 same faculty of changing colour as possessed by full- 

 grown chameleons. The length of these small chameleons, 

 measu]*ed from the ti]) of the nose to the tip of the tail, 

 was about one and three-fjuarter inches. There may have 

 been moi*e young ones about but so far no others have 

 been found. 



As the small exit hole from the nest had been closed 

 for some days I assumed that all the eggs Ihat were 

 fertile bad halclied. lU^'iig cni-ions [o tind ont how many 

 eggs the chameleon ]ia<l laid, I dug ont the nest on the 

 Kith March, when to my astonishment I found clusters 

 of eggs inlerspersed wiili s(»jl. A few eggs had got broken 

 during the digging opei-ations and three were opened to 

 see if they were fertile, but T found them all barren. T 

 then carefully counted the eggs and shells or skins and 

 fonnd there were no less Ihan seventy, of which sixty- 

 fonr were intact. TJiei'e may have Ikmmi a few inoi-o but 

 J did not search further. I buried most of the eggs in 



