LIZARD 



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LLAMA 



Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of the 

 Emperor Augustus. His history of Rome was 

 written partly in Rome and partly in Naples, 

 and originally consisted of 1.42 books, but only 

 thirty-five have been preserved. The Annals 

 of the Roman People, as he called his great 

 work, begins with the foundation of Rome and 

 nds with the death of Drusus, the brother of 

 Tiberius. Portions of Livy's writings are quite 

 generally used in colleges as a standard course 

 for advanced classes in Latin. 



LIZ'ARD, a group of reptiles distributed 

 throughout the temperate and tropical regions, 

 and consisting of many species. They show 

 wide differences in size, structure and habits. 

 In general the lizard possesses a long body with 

 a protruding head, a distinct neck, four sprawl- 

 ing limbs, and eyes provided with movable 

 eyelids or a protecting fold of thin skin. In 

 size it ranges from tiny, wormlike forms to 

 those six or seven feet in length. The skin, like 

 that of snakes, is usually covered with scales, 

 but these are much reduced or otherwise modi- 

 fied in some species. Some forms have lost one 

 or both pairs of limbs, but the legless lizards 

 may be distinguished from snakes in that the 

 latter are capable of opening the mouth to a 

 greater extent than can the lizards. 



hatching eggs; in a few species the young are 

 born alive. 



Related Subjects. Reference is made to th 

 following lizards in these volumes : 

 Chameleon Horned Toad 



Gecko Iguana 



Gila Monster 



LLAMA, lah'ma, an animal belonging to the 

 camel family, although smaller than the camel 

 and less stupid in appearance. It has no hump 

 on the back; the feet are more pointed and are 

 divided into two toes, each with a strong, horny 

 nail or hoof, 

 with a thick pad 

 beneath adapted 

 for traveling in 

 the mountains. 

 Llamas live only 

 in the western 

 parts of Central 

 South America, 

 where the climate 



is temperate; 



THE LLAMA 



they are the principal beasts of burden of the 

 Indians of Peru and Bolivia. They are found 

 in the higher ranges of the Andes, twelve to 

 sixteen thousand feet above sea level, seldom 

 descending lower than 6,000 to 7,000 feet. 



KEELED LIZARD 



Lizards are black, red, yellow and white, with 

 combinations of gray and brown; some species, 

 notably the chameleons, possess the power of 

 changing their hue to correspond with the color 

 of the objects on which they lie. Many of 

 these reptiles possess the power of snapping off 

 the tail when that organ is seized by a would-be 

 captor. Then the mutilated creature seeks the 

 crevice of a rock, where it waits patiently for 

 a new tail to grow. Lizards feed mostly on 

 worms and insects, but sometimes they eat 

 vegetable foods, They reproduce usually by 



PINE LIZARD 



Their food is mosses, lichens, tough, grass; 

 reeds, and such shrubs as grow in high lati 

 tudes. If they find juicy food they seldo 

 require water. Their hair is long and wool! 

 and of a pale, reddish color, which is valu 

 highly by the Peruvians, who weave the fie 

 into cloth. When cornered, llamas cluster i 

 groups, with tails together and heads out to 

 meet the enemy. Their only weapon of defense 

 is their saliva, which they squirt through thei 

 teeth in showers as a Chinese laundrym 

 sprinkles clothes. A drop of this saliva on 



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