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tail ; the sides rising up a little beyond the fur- 

 row : beneath the thighs is a row of papillse : all 

 the feet are furnished with five slender toes, and 

 the tail is marked into about fifty verticilli or 

 divisions. This lizard is a native of the southern 

 parts of Europe, and though remotely different 

 as a species, seems by some authors to have been 

 confounded with the Lacerta Chalcides, the name 

 Seps having been applied occasionally to both ani- 

 mals. In the British and Leverian Museums are 

 specimens agreeing in every particular with the 

 Linnsean description of the species. Its colour 

 is a livid brown above, paler or more inclining to 

 whiteness beneath. 



, with granulated skin, missile 

 tongue, $$c. 



COMMON* CHAM/ELEON. 



Lacerta Chamaeleon. L. cinerea, pileo piano, cauda tereti incurva, 



digitis duobis tribusque coadunatis. 

 Grey Chameleon, with flat crown, cylindric incurved tail, and 



toes conjoined by two and three. 

 L. Chamaeleon. L. cauda tereti breci incurca, digitis duobus tri- 



bustfue coadunatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 364. 

 L. cinerea, pileo piano. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. 1069. 

 Chamaeleon. Aldr. Quad. Orip. p. 6JO. Jonst. Quadr. t. 79* 

 The Chameleon. Museum Lccfrianum, 1. p. 1<H. 

 L. Chamseleon. Chameleon. Millar, dm. Phys. p. 22. /. 11. 



FEW animals have been more celebrated by na- 

 tural historians than the Chameleon, which has 



