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covered with sand or gravel; and for food it will eat snails, 
slugs, fruit, and raw meat. The water may be placed in 
a small vessel. This Reptile is ovoviviparous, and produces three 
or four at one time. The entire length of the creature is 
about 13in. 
The Great Cyclodus (Cyclodus gigas, Gray, or Tiliqua scincoides, 
Boulenger) is a large handsome Skink, and one which-lives very 
well in confinement. It also comes from Australia, a country 
particularly rich in this kind of Lizard. It has often bred in 
captivity, and several times at the Zoological Gardens, London. 
The young, which are produced fully formed, may be reared upon 
minced raw meat. 
Fig. 44 will give anyone who has never seen the animal a very 
good idea of its shape. It is one of the largest of the Skinks, 
being, when full grown, about 20in. in length. The Reptile’s 
legs are short and strong, the toes on each foot are five in number, 
and are short and thick. Its ear-opening is very distinct, being 
about as large as the eye, and its anterior edge, to a certain 
extent, is serrated. Its tail is cylindrical, and a little shorter 
than the body, which is covered with smooth scales. The upper 
parts of this animal are of a yellowish-brown colour marked with 
cross-bands of a darker brown; the under parts are yellowish, 
sometimes spotted with brown. This hardy and very interesting 
Skink can generally be bought, when in the market, for about 
30s. Except during summer, the Great Cyclodus should be kept 
in a heated case, and its food ought to consist of snails, slugs, 
sometimes fruit, and raw meat. 
There are other Skinks of this genus which may occa- 
sionally be met with in this country, and which will live fairly 
well in captivity, e.g., the Dblack-and-yellow Cyclodus (C. 
nigroluteus, Gray, or 7. nigrolutea, Boulenger). This Lizard 
differs from its larger relative, among other things, in 
having an eat-opening smaller than its eye, a tail shorter in 
proportion to the length of its body, and in its colouring, for, 
as its specific name implies, it is of a black-brown spotted or 
banded with yellow or dark brown. Its entire length is 14+in. 
It may be treated in the same way as has been suggested for the 
Great Cyclodus. 
