84 LIZARD. 



Place. inhabits Carolina : domeftic, familiar, and harmlefs. Sports on ta- 



bles and windows, and annufes with its agility in catching flies : gazes at 

 mankind without concern : (wells its throat into a protuberance, which 

 it difcharges at will. Cold afFefts the colors : in that uncertain climate, 

 when there is a quick tranfition, in the fame day, from hot to cold, it 

 changes inftantly from the moft brilliant green to a dull brown. Is 

 fometimes tempted by a gleam of fun to quit its retreat, but by the fud- 

 den change of weather is fo enfeebled, as not to be able to return to its 

 hole, and will die with cold. 



17, Five-lined. L. 5-lineata. L. Cauda tereti mediocri, dorfo lineis quinque albidls, Lin. ^66. 



With one yellow line under each eye, two between^ and one on 

 each fide above : upper parts of the body dufky, marked with 

 - five lines of a pale yellow color, reaching to the middle of the tail : 

 belly fcaly and ftriated : tail half as long again as the body. 

 Place. Inhabits Carolina. — Doflor GARDErf. 



i8. Guana. L. Iguana, Lin. 366. 



The Guana, Catejby, ii. 64. 



T With the top of the back and tail ftrongly ferrated : the gullet 

 ferrated in the fame manner. Sometimes found to be five feet 

 long. Has fmall teeth, and will bite hard. 

 Place. Inhabits the rocks of the Bahama iflands; and lurks in clifi^s, or hol- 



low trees : feeds entirely on vegetables and fruits : the fat of the abdo- 

 men aflumes the color of that which it has laft eaten : has a moft dif- 

 gufting look ; yet is eftccmed a moft delicate and wholefome food ; 

 noxious only to venereal patients *. Is flow : not amphibious % yet on 

 neceffity will continue long under water : fwims by means of the tail, 

 keeping its legs clofe to the body. Guanoes are the fupport of the na- 

 tives oixh& Bahamas, who go in their floops from rock to rock in 



f Linnaus, 



fearch 



