360 SAVANNA-LE-MAR. 



except one such sound now and then in the course 

 of an evening. 



Some three or four species of Anourous Reptiles 

 are all that Jamaica has produced to my researches, 

 and all of these are of the family Hyladce, whose 

 dilated sucking-disks at the tips of their toes, enable 

 them to cling about the foliage of trees and plants, 

 and to leap from leaf to leaf with security and pre- 

 cision. 



One of these was taken in a bedroom at Savanna- 

 le-Mar, one night in October, having probably 

 hopped in at the open window from the branches 

 of a mango-tree only a few feet distant. I was sur- 

 prised at its changes of colour, in this respect re- 

 sembling the Chameleons and Anoles, or, still nearer, 

 the Geckos. When I obtained it, the whole upper 

 parts were of a rich deep umber-brown, with indis- 

 tinct black bands. On looking at it at night, to my 

 surprise I saw a great alteration of hue : it was paler 

 on the head and back, though least altered there ; 

 on the rump, and on the fore and hind legs, it was 

 become a sort of semi-pellucid drab, marked with 

 minute close-set dark specks. When disturbed, it 

 presently became slightly paler still, but in a few 

 minutes it had recovered its original depth of tint. 

 In the course of half an hour it displayed again the 

 speckled drab hue, and now uniformly so, save a 

 black irregular patch or two on the back, and a dark 

 patch between the mouth and each eye. The belly, 

 which was very regularly shagreened, was of a dull 

 buiF, not susceptible of change, The eyes retained 

 their proverbial beauty, for the irides were of a 



