160 Rev. L. Guilding on the Zoology of 



miilarum tectae. Crista squamarum productarum dorsum totum occu- 

 pans, (feminifi minor.) Caput subquadratum. Lingua carnosa, apice 

 emarg^nata. Palear gutturale (maris) contractile, maximum, compres- 

 sum ; inter amores ramo filiformi ossis hyoidis extensile ; feminee palear 

 spurium. Aures squama maxima clausi. Os parietale foramine con- 

 tracto perforatum, squama parvula obtecto. Denies apicibus triangula- 

 ribus, serrulatis. Pedes validissimi. Digiti longi, quinque. Ungues 

 magni, recurvi. Femora subtiis ordine unico tuberculorum,* 



Iguana tubercidata. Laur., Cuv. 



I. corpore viridi : cauda fasciis distinctis nigris : lateribus maculis ob- 

 soletis nigris, flavis : coUo tuberculato, nigro, purpureo azureoque varie- 

 gato : crista guise denticulata, dorsali maxima pectinata : tuberculo in- 

 ternasali : callis femoralibas 17. 



Lacerta iguana, Linn, a Gmel., p. 1062, ubi synonyma nmlta. 



UTguane ordinaire. Daud. 



iJiguane. Lacep. 



Common Guana, Shaw. Sloane, Hist. Jam. p. 333, pi. 273, fig. 1, 

 male. 



Haliiat longitudine 4-5 pedum frequens in Insulis Caribaeis, insectis 

 victitans ; fistulando ssepe servis nostris in laqueum allicitur. Arboribus 

 nonnunquam dormitat vel prsedam expectat. Subito capta ictus diros 

 sanguinolentos cauda acuta (quasi ense) dirigit. 



Animal omnino pulcherriraum. Pullus pulchrior, coloribus vividis, 

 mox saturatioribus, obscuris. 



On the western or leeward coast of St. Vincent, the Guana occurs in 

 great abundance. While passing in my canoe, I have shot as many as 

 eiglit in a single spot which they frequent, to the great joy of my negro 

 boatmen, who value them beyond measure. The Creoles, who alone eat 

 them, cook them as a boiled rabbit, which they ai"e said to equal in de- 



* These tubercles, or rather round sacs, have only a connection with the 

 skin, in which they are deeply imbedded, projecting internally when it is re- 

 moved. They are filled with a fatty substance, harder than suet, and may pos- 

 sibly answer the same purpose in this animal as the calli of the Camel, while 

 creeping or resting on the parched sands or rocks of our coasts. 



