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are very good tempered. I have carried them about loosely 
myself, always taking care never to provoke them, however! 
I once saw a little boy pulling one about quite roughly, and, after 
satisfying myself that the teeth were not extracted, I destroyed it 
for fear of accident. I must say I do not quite regard snake- 
charming as some people do. Anyone who has ever kept a non- 
poisonous Snake knows that with a very little caution, and when 
the Snake has come to know him, it can be handled and even 
played with freely; and if non-poisonous, why not poisonous 
species as well? 
The Chameleon found here has but two changes of colour— 
green and greyish brown; the latter is its natural colour 
apparently, while it more usually adopts the former. The change 
of hue is instantaneous. I caught one in my butterfly-net on one 
occasion; it had been green while in the bush when I struck at 
it, but on the moment it changed to greyish brown. On another 
occasion the change absolutely took place before my eyes. If 
hurt or damaged, however, they do not seem to have strength 
enough to alter the colour, but remain green, which may be taken 
as a sign that they will die. If on any tree trunk or other dark- 
coloured substance, very likely (though I am not sure) they adopt 
the greyish brown hue.* 
Various species of Flying Lizard (Draco) are rather common ; 
they usually go in couples, for what reasons I do not know, but 
whenever I see one fly across from one tree-trunk to another 
I remain still and in a quarter of a minute another is sure to 
follow ; on two occasions I have seen three, so that I am inclined 
to think it is more for company than anything else. These 
lizards also seem to possess some slight power of changing their 
colour. I saw one whose body alone was eight or nine inches 
long; the inner part of the membrane was red, and as it glided 
through the air I really thought it was a good-sized bird. 
There is a queer sort of frog here which occurs in my 
bath-room and apparently nowhere else; it turns from a colour- 
less grey to a sort of brown; it is very thin, and can jump a 
* According to Prof. Mivart (‘ Nature,’ 11th August, 1881. p. 336) there 
are fifty known species of Chameleon. The species found in Borneo is 
presumably C. vulgaris, which occurs in Southern Spain, Northern and 
Southern Africa, Asia Minor, Arabia, Hindostan, and Ceylon. No other 
species has so extensive a range.—ED. 
