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1893, died on the 8th January, 1895, probably through mis- 
adventure. It was very lively and active on the morning of its 
death. 
A Chameleon can be kept all through the year in a vivarium 
like either Fig. 3 or Fig. 12. If the former kind of case be 
adopted, the hot-water arrangement, already spoken of in 
connection with Fig. 3, could be dispensed with, and a piece of 
stout zinc or sheet iron, cut the size of the base of the case, 
should be fastened to the bottom on the outside. There will then 
be a distance of about an inch between the zine or iron on the 
cutside and the perforated zinc bottom on the inside. The 
case must be then raised, by means of four short wooden legs, so 
high that a small paraftin-lamp may be placed underneath. 
And then the temperature within the case can be kept at 
any reasonable degree of heat. The heat, according to this 
plan, is more easily applied than when hot water is used. 
But a case which is heated by means of a _ boiler, will 
retain its warmth for a considerable time, if by chance the 
lamp should go out. It is wise to keep a small thermometer 
in the vivarium. 
During the summer a Chameleon need not be kept in a case 
which is artificially warmed, but it must be supplied with as much 
sunshine as possible. When the sun is very powerful the Reptile 
should always have access to shade, an absence of which will 
sometimes cause the animal’s death. 
The Chameleon will not, as a rule, drink from any vessel. If 
the interior of the case be periodically syringed with water, the 
Reptile will take a drop here and there ; but the constant syring- 
ing has a tendency to make the vivarium very damp, and in an 
unsuitable condition for a Chameleon. As far as my own 
experience goes, the following is the best plan for supplying this 
creature with water. A small bottle of water is placed on the 
top of the case; a tiny stone is tied to the end of a piece of coarse 
string of a length three times that of the bottle. The stone is 
then dropped into the bottle, and thus, one part of the string 
being in the bottle and two-thirds out, a kind of slow-running 
siphon is formed. The bottle is in this way slowly emptied drop 
by drop. A drop of water will generally hang for some little 
