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was just around the eyes. I carefully secured, without 

 injuring him, and brought him home in the collecting- 

 basket, into which I had no sooner put him, than he 

 fiercely seized a piece of linen in his teeth, and would 

 not let it go for several hours. I transferred him to a 

 wired cage, linen and all ; and at length he suddenly 

 let go his hold, and flew wildly about the cage, biting 

 at anything presented to him. At night I observed 

 him vividly green as at first; a token, as I pre- 

 sumed, that he had in some measure recovered his 

 equanimity. 



The next day he continued very fierce. I hung 

 the cage out in the sun ; two or three times in the 

 course of the day I observed him green ; but for the 

 most part he was black. The changes were rather 

 quickly accomplished. 



After he had been in my possession about four 

 days, I observed him one morning sloughing his skin ; 

 the delicate epidermis, loosened from the body and 

 legs, looked like a garment of thin white muslin, 

 split irregularly down the legs and toes, and separated 

 from that of the tail, on which the integument yet 

 adhered unbroken. Throughout the day the loosened 

 skin hung about the animal, though more and more 

 loosely. He had not abated a whit of his fierceness ; 

 leaping at a stick pointed at him, and seizing it 

 forcibly with his teeth. 



Another individual, caught in the same locality, 

 and by the same device, I introduced into the cage of 

 the former, who did not offer any molestation to the 

 intruder. After they had remained in my possession, 

 the one about six weeks, the other about four, they 



