212 DAYS OUT OF DOORS. 



greater fear of man that held it back, and not really a 

 want of cunning. 



In many respects the skink recalls the snakes, and its 

 manner of crawling, often without making any use of the 

 posterior limbs, and generally keeping the body greatly 

 bent, adds to the resemblance ; and so, despite its shyness 

 and courage when captured, evidences of intellectual 

 strength, the skink seems lower in the scale of intelligence 

 than the pine-tree lizard, but is probably its superior. 



