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appropriately added. Pending the establishment of the new up-to-date lizard house, 
where all the peculiar locomotive traits and other equally interesting life habits of the 
lizard tribe may be intelligently observed, much new knowledge concerning them and a 
vast amount of pleasurable recreation may be gained by the hospitable entertainment of 
a few suitably selected lizard guests in the home circle. Experimental essays in this 
direction instituted by the writer yielded a rich harvest of material for both the quill 
and camera, of which but a few gleanings can be included in the present article. 
The most favourable conditions for observation were probably established when the 
writer adapted his ordinary study, a large bow-windowed room facing south, for the 
requirements of his lizard guests. A simple arrangement of rough virgin cork cylinders 
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RETIRING TO ROOST. 
Green Fiji Iguanas, Australian Water Lizard, Jew or Bearded Lizards. 
around the window-sill constituted an ideal basking ground for these sun-loving creatures, 
into the hollow recesses of which many of the individuals would retire and pass the 
night. A few palms and other shrubs were provided for the essentially tree-frequenting 
varieties, and a shallow tank for the recreation of semi-aquatic species. A suitably located 
box of earth was intelligently used by the majority of the larger forms for sanitary 
purposes. 
It was interesting to find on what amicable terms quite a large assemblage of 
unrelated species would settle down together and so constitute a veritable happy family. . 
Skinks, represented by the grotesque Stump-tails, Blue-tongue and other varieties, 
Iguanas, Agamoids, with occasionally a Chameleon, would lay basking together for hours 
