THE LIZARD. 



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CHAPTER X. 

 The Lizard and the Prog-. 



The Lizard. Lizards are small terrestrial reptiles, 

 most of them perfectly inoffensive, found in great abun- 

 dance in the warm and even the temperate parts of both 

 continents. They live on worms and insects, and so de- 

 stroy large numbers of creatures annoying to man. There 

 are several species of lizard, the gray, green-spotted, 



FIG. 58. 



COMMON LIZARD (Lacerta vivipara). 



brown, and red. The common lizards of temperate 

 countries are rarely longer than six or eight inches. 

 They usually prefer to live in rocky places or walls ex- 

 posed to the sun. The tail is made up of articulations 

 that are broken off with great ease, but the lost part is 

 afterwards reproduced. The colors of many of the 



