FRINGED DRAGON. Draco fimbri&tus. 



FLYING DRAGON. -Draco volant 



After a while it can be made to know its owner, and will even take flies and other insects 

 out of his hand. Little red ants seem to be its favourite food, but it lives on beetles, and 

 insects of various kinds. 



The head of this curious reptile is armed with long, pointed, conical spines, set around 

 its edge and directed backward. Shorter and stouter spines, but of a triangular shape, are 

 scattered over the back, and extend even over the odd, short, and pointed tail. Each edge 

 of the tail is armed with a strong row of spines, giving it a regularly toothed appearance. 

 The general colour of the Crowned Tapayaxin is grey, variegated with several irregular 

 bands of rich chestnut-brown. The head is light brown blotched with a darker hue, and 

 the under parts are ochry yellow, marked with sundry blotches of dark grey. 



THE family which comes next in order is that in which are included the AGAMAS, a group 

 of Lizards which have been appropriately termed the Iguanas of the Old "World. In the 

 members of this family the teeth are set upon the edge of the jaws, and not upon their 

 inner side, as in the true Iguanas of the New World. Between thirty and forty genera 

 are contained in this family, and some of the species are interesting as well as peculiar 

 beings. 



Perhaps the most curious of all this family, if not, indeed, the most curious of all the 

 reptiles, is the little Lizard which is well known under the title of the FLYING DRAGON. 



This singular reptile is a native of Java, Borneo, the Philippines and neighbouring 

 islands, and is tolerably common. Some writers believe that this creature was the original 

 source from which the many fables respecting the formidable dragon of ancient and 

 modern mythology were derived. Perhaps, however, the real due to the various fables 



