FRILLED LIZARDS AT BAY, p. 71. 



W. Samlle-Kent, Photo. 



CHAPTER III. 



ItlZflftDS. 



W. Samlle-A'fnt, Photo. 



,HE Australian Continent, with its vast expanses 

 of virgin forest, rugged rock, and arid sand, 

 is, par excellence, the dwelling place of a 

 wonderfully diversified number of representatives of the 

 Lizard tribe. These are found to range in dimensions 

 from huge Monitors or Varani, six or seven feet in 

 length, to diminutive Skinks, Geckos and other forms 

 that cannot boast of as many inches. Among this 

 motley lacertilian assemblage there occur several types 



which are remarkable 

 for their bizarre form 

 and structural or physio- 

 logical peculiarities. It 

 has, as a consequence, 

 been determined to devote 

 a short chapter to the 



FRILLED LIZARD AT REST, p. 70. 



