Zoo 
Notes 241 
FRINGED GECKO. 
no doubt, has some power of attachment, 
and when specimens are examined this 
matter will probably be cleared up. The 
natives call the animal famocantrata (the 
beast that springs on the chest), and assert 
that on anyone approaching a tree where 
one of these geckos is resting, it would leap 
at his chest, and instantly attach itself 
so firmly that it could not be detached 
without removing the skin with a razor. 
Now, having observed the specimen at the 
Zoo adhering to the plate glass of the 
vivarium, I was anxious to obtain a photo- 
graph in this position, as it is patent that 
the animal did not depend on spider-like 
claws for its power of adhesion to glass in 
the vertical position, which the reverse 
photograph illustrates, and proves that the 
animal has some power of adhesion at the 
ends of its digits (at least) which enables it, 
like the house-fly, to attach itself to any 
object, even polished plate-glass. 
No doubt 
GALAPAGON LAND 
Upper and under sides. 
the matter will be thoroughly dealt with in 
the Zoological Society’s publications. 
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AwnotHEeR of Mr. Rothschild’s deposits at 
lenanastiron the Zoo, which has excited 
the Galapagos considerable interest among 
Archipelago. naturalists, is the group of 
Galapagos Iguanas, originally seven in 
number, but now, unfortunately, reduced 
to one specimen. This sole survivor shows 
very little animation, remaining on the 
shingle with closed eyes, and only takes 
food when forced into its mouth. 
Darwin (“A Naturalist’s Voyage,’ Chapter 
Xvii.), in his account of the Galapagos Archi- 
pelago, gives a full description of these 
iguanas living in multitudes (‘we could not 
for some time find a spot free from their 
burrows on which to pitch our single tent ”) 
on Indefatigable Island, which is the more 
remarkable considering that the entire “archi- 
IGUANA. 
