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the Judgment even of Pliny that we referr our 

 selves to his opinion thereof. And without trying 

 whether we could raise Tempests with its Head, 

 or gain Law-suits with its Tongue, or stop rivers 

 with its Tail, and do the other Miracles which 

 it is said Democritus hath left in Writeing ; we 

 were contented to make those experiments which 

 seemed to have some probabilitie, being founded 

 on Sympathie and Antipathy, such as is that 

 which Solinus Reports to be so great between the 

 Crow and the Camelion, that it dyes immediately 

 after having Eaten of its Flesh. The truth is 

 that a Crow peckt several times with its Bill on 

 our Camelion, when it was set to it Dead ; and we 

 gave it several Parts of it to eat, and even the 

 Heart it self, which it swallowed without any 

 harm." 



Chameleons of one species or another can 

 generally be seen in the reptile house at the Zoo, 

 it being a rare event for the Society to be with- 

 out one at the present time they have no less 

 than eight. But they attract but little attention 

 from visitors, and indeed are not very interesting 

 looking animals, as they sit stolidly on the plants 

 provided for them in their cases, generally without 

 moving. They cannot be kept constantly supplied 

 with insects for food, and, speaking from a some- 

 what intimate knowledge of the habits of these 

 animals in confinement, there is nothing in the world 

 will induce a chameleon to take even the slightest 

 apparent interest in its surroundings unless it be 



