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clouded with gray; scales of the entire lower surface with scattered 

 small gray dots; the tail is pale gray with a darker suffusion on the 

 peaks of the caudal crest. 



Variations. — The color of freshly preserved and living animals is 

 extremely variable. Mr. Eyerdam notes that those collected by him 

 at Miragoane were black above, with a brick-red throat, and that the 

 under side of the tail was orange. In other freshly preserved ones, 

 the upper parts may be bottle green to cerulean or any tone of brown 

 or gray, while the gular fan and under surface of tail are a brilliant 

 citron yellow. In many specimens the occipital scale is pale blue, and 



Figure 48. — Anolis disiiclius dominicensis: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, middorsal 

 scales; d, side of tail. U.S.N.M. No. 69149, from Mon Repos, Haiti. Two and one-half 

 times natural size. 



the suborbital semicircles are of the same tone. Most specimens 

 showing any head pattern at all have a transverse narrow brown bar 

 across the head through the supraocular region, while most of the head 

 scales are narrowly outlined in brown, and there often appears a brown 

 nuchal marking. Sometimes the body is highly mottled with short 

 dark stripes of irregular shape on a lighter ground. Occasionally a 

 specimen will be found having a fairly definite light lateral stripe 

 bordered above and below by darker pigment, as in U.S.N.M. No. 

 59115, an adult female from Petionville. 



A young female from Jeremie, U.S.N.M. No. 60625, has a pale blue 

 band from the corner of the mouth running diagonally upward over the 

 ear and ending above the shoulder; in addition there are some light- 



