450 nfsTORY or 



LIZARDS. 



VARIEGATED LIZARD. 



This Lizard is so nearly like the Lacerta Mo- 

 nitor of, or Monitory Lizard of Linnaeus, as to 

 leave but very little doubt whether it is any 

 thing more than a variety of that species ; the 

 length of the body is fifteen inches, and the tail 

 is still longer ; the colour is black with yellow 

 spots and streaks in a transverse direction ; but 

 those parts yellow in some, are white in others. 



THE BROAD TAILED LIZARD, 



This species is five inches long with a pro- 

 portionate head ; the upper part is beset with 

 numerous tubercles, which in those parts to- 

 wards the head particularly are lengthened into 

 points ; the under part is of a pale colour, 

 nearly white ; the upper part is of a dusky grey 

 colour and very rough ; it has a depressed lance- 

 olate tail, nearly spiny on the margin. 



THE SCINCORD, OR SCINC-FORMED LIZARD. 



The tail is considerably longer than that of 

 the Scincuses, though by no means so taper; 

 the colour of this animal is an iron grey of vari- 



