THE NIMBLE LIZARD, 27 



Easily taraed Description. 



biting, and some are carried alive from hence to 

 Carolina for sale; others are salted and barrelled 

 for home consumption. The flesh is sometimes 

 roasted, but more usually boiled, the fat being 

 first taken out, which the natives melt and cla* 

 rify. 



This animal may be easily domesticated if 

 taken young. A full grown one was kept by 

 Dr. Browne, about his house, for more than two 

 months. At first it was very fierce and ill- 

 natured, but after some days it grew more tame, 

 and would at length pass the greatest part of the 

 day on the bed or couch, hut jt always went out 

 at night. As it walked along it frequently threw 

 out its forked tongue ; but, during all the time 

 he had it, he never observed that it ate any 

 thing. 



THE NIMBLE LIZARD. 



THE general length of this animal is, from, 

 the nose to the end of the tail, about six inches 

 and a half. The upper part of the head is light 

 brown, and the back and tail are variously striped 

 and spotted with light brown, black, white, and 

 dark birown ; the under parts of the body are of 

 a dirty white. The tail is nearly twice the length 

 of the body, and tapers from the root to the 

 extremity, where it ends in a sharp point. This, 

 from, the weakness of the vertebrae, is so brittle 



