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LACERTA 



Media [quamofa, corpore & cau 



oblongo-fubquadratisy auribus m 

 joribus nudis. 





The Galley- Wafp. See 

 Pet. Gaz. 69. f ■> 



This reptile is moft frequently met with in the woods, but is fometimes obferved 



It is generally of a dirty colour, clouded with crofs 



in low marfhy places alfo. 

 ftripes of a lighter or darker 

 yellow. It is reckoned the 



ft 



d changes often from that to a fi 



venomous 



ptile in thefe illand 



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faid, no creature can recover from the bite of it j but tho' this is a general alTer 

 tion, and told by every perfon, I could never learn any pofitive f \§l from per 



teeth 



ihort 



fons worthy of credit. Th 



imagine the poifon, if any there be, mufr. lie in the fal 



d fixed, fo that I 



The tail 



than it is generally represented 



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lly from one to two feet or better in length 



d tapers gradually to the end. It is g 





LACERTA 4. Minor, caudd longiori attenuatd,fafcid\ The fmall Ground 



fubviridi in utroque late 



Lizard 





This creature is very 



d changes its colour lefs than any of 



It is the moft common of all the forts, and keeps in holes in the ground during 



all 



ghtj but 



ways out by day to feek for food. It is very freq 



in 



the 



fugar-iilands, and the moft common prey of the 



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thofe parts of the world 



LACERTA 5. Minor viridis, caudd fqua-\ The Guana-Lizard ; and blue 



mis e reel is crijlatd. 



Lizard of Edw. p. 5 





common in J 



g 



its hue with its fe 



and keeps generally of a beautiful 



This fpecies 

 colour j but it 

 more ready than any of them in all its mutations ; for it aflumes th 



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ke the reft of the kind, and feems 



f every 



place it moves to very foon. The whole body is flightly fcaled, but thofe in the 

 upper part of the tail 



erected into a fmall indented 



ft, fomewhat like the 



Gua 



It feldom exceeds nine or ten inches in length, and is very 







LACERTA 6. Minor > corpore deprejfo & utrinque at- 

 tenuate \ lateribus fafcid longitudinali al 

 bidd ventri approximatd notatis. 



This fpecies is generally thought to be venomous, but I have 



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common in moft of the iflands- wh 



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ftance of it, tho' they 



They are generally of a flatted oblong form, and taper gradually and 



equally 5 



been 



fork, or < 

 three at a time 



wards both 

 ther weapo 



d 



I h 



the 



almoft 

 feen thefe creatures, when ftuck with a 



one, two, or 



throw off all the tail by jo 







LACERT 



A 7. Minor fubcinereo-mifcella, caudd tenui-1 _,, „. r r - j 



ori. $ 



This fpecies feldom exceeds five or fix inches in length, and is of a delicate {lender 



make 



The tail is long and tapering, but generally more or le& erect in its poll 



tion. I have fometimes put 



f this fort under a large fpeaking-trumpet, and 



on fhaking the machine, it was fo terrified that it was hardly able to ftir for 



fiderable time after. I have- alfo obferved that, in fuch 



turn of a mottled black colour; 



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on 



being 



d to 



a 



they a 

 tuft of 



way 



fs, change again to a g 



een colour. This fp 



tches flies very readily. It is frequent about all 

 parts of Jamaica. 



is 



f a delicate make, and 



the fettlem 



in the country 



LACERTA 



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