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LIZARDS. 



Lobe-Footed The geckos being so numerous in species, which are arranged 



Gecko. under no less than forty-nine genera, it is of course impossible in a 

 work like the present to do more than notice a few of the better known or inort 

 striking. Among these, one of the most familiar is the little lobe- or faii-footec 

 gecko (Ptyodadylv.s lobatus), of Northern Africa, Arabia, and Syria. This is one 

 of two species belonging to a genus characterised by the toes (as shown in the 



TURKISH GECKO (lUlt. Size). 



figure on p. Ill), being dilated at their summits, where they are furnished inferiorly 

 with two diverging series of plates: the digits being furnished with claws capable 

 of retraction within notches in the front of the disc. The upper surface is covered 

 with granules, among which are some small keeled tubercles; the colour being 

 o-revish or yellowish brown above, witli darker and liirht spots, and below uniform 



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white. The length is a little over 5 inches. 



Equally well known is the Turkish irecko ( Hemidactylus inr- 

 Turkish Gecko. . ,.,.,.,. 



cicus), represented in the figure above, which is likewise a small 



