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fearch of them. They are taken with dogs trained for the purpofe. 

 As foon as caught, their mouths are fev/ed up, to prevent them from 

 biting. Some are carried alive for fale to Carolina -, others faked and 

 barrelled for home confumption. 



Lacerta fafciata, Lhi. ^6g. I9- Blue. 



Blue- tail Lizard, Catejby, ii. 67. 



TAILED. 



T With a Ihort head : brown body, ftriped from the nofe to the tail 

 with five yellow lines : the tail (lender and blue. Length of this 

 fpecies fix inches. 



Inhabits Carolina and Virginia. Poffibly differs only in fex from the Place, 



Five-lined Lizard. 



Lacerta putiftata, Lin. ■iijo. 20. Spotted. 



Spotted Eft, Catejby App, 10. . 



T "With the crown, back, and upper part of the tail, dufky, mark- 

 * ed on each fide of the back with a row of round white fpots : 

 throat, fides, and belly, dull yellow. Length five inches. 



Inhabits Virginia. - Place. 



Lmofoii, 131. 21. Scorpion. 



T With a copper-colored back, and orange belly ; called by Law/on, 

 the Scorpion Lizard : very adtive in rurining up trees : is faid to 

 be venomous ? 



T With a long head, and great blunt nofe : the whole animal of a 22. AN^fULATED. 



dufky color, with a row of large white fpots on each fide of the 

 back : tail carinated above and below : body divided and furrounded 

 by annuli. Length about fix inches. 



Called in America, the Well Slow. — Mrs. Blackburn's Mujemi. 



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