Zoo Notes 
THe Astatic WHITE CRANE, of which a 
photograph was given on page 335 of the 
last volume, has laid an egg. The male bird 
is very jealous of all intruders, and it was only 
by stealthily creeping ito the next enclosure 
that Mr. Dando was able to make a rapid 
exposure just as the hen 
rose from the nest and 
exposed the egg; the male 
bird was after him in a 
second, and he says he 
was pleased to know that 
wire netting separated him 
from the jealous spouse. 
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Stmony’s LIzAnrp (Lacerta 
Simonyt), although its 
habitat 1s not very distant, 
1S @ Species comparatively 
new to science, having 
been first described by Dr. 
Steindachner so recently 
as 1889. It inhabits the 
“Roques del Zalmor,” 
near Hiero Island, in the 
Canary group, and is thus) = 
an extremely local form ; 
it is stated to subsist on 
crabs. Three specimens 
were received at the Zoo 
in the spring of 1890, two 
of which were collected 
by Canon Tristram and 
presented to the Society 
by the late Lord Lalford. 
The species belongs to 
the same genus as the 
common green lizard. eae 
The specimen here figured 
is noteworthy from the 
circumstance that it 
possesses two tails, having 
grown a second one (in 
reality only a fleshy sub- 
stance without any bones) out of a wound 
received from an injury two-thirds down its 
original tail. 
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THe NortH-AMERICAN BLuE Lizarp (Gerrho- 
notus cerwleus), whose portrait is reproduced 
in our second illustration, although to the 
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uninitiated very similar in general appearance 
to the last, belongs to a totally different 
family, bemg in fact a relation of our own 
blind-worm, or slow-worm. It is therefore 
a member of the family Angwide, whereas 
Simony’s lizard is included in the typical family 
SIMONY'S LIZARD. 
Photographs by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
BLUE LIZARD. 
Lacertide. The characters distinguishing 
these two families are not apparent externally, 
and it would take too long to describe them 
here. The present North-American species 1s 
stated to be somewhat rare (at all events in 
collections) ; and the first example ever seen 
at the Zoo was received there in 1896. 
