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NILOTIC LIZARD. 



Lacerta Nilotica. L. cauda longa extimo triipietra, corpore gla- 

 bro, dorso squamarum lineis quatuor. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 

 1075. Hasselqv. it. ;>. 3 1 1 . 



Lizard with long triquetrous tail, smooth body, and four lines 

 of scales down the back. 



SMALL ; native of Egypt : observed by Hassel- 

 quist. 



TIL1GUERTA LIZARD. 



Lacerta Tiliguerta. L. cauda certiciUata corpore duplo longiorc, 

 scutis abdominis octoginta. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1070. 

 Cetti. Aiijlb. di Sard. p. 15. 



Lizard with verticillated tail of twice the length of the body, 

 and eighty abdominal scuta. 



THIS, which is a small species, measuring be- 

 tween seven and eight inches in length, is allied 

 to the green lizard, and is a native of the island 

 of Sardinia, where it is said to be found in fields, 

 about walls, &c. : the male is green, spotted with 

 black ; the female brown. 



