192 THE HABITS ОЕ MALAY REPTILES. 
route, so that when they appear in the Gardens one knows ex- 
actly which tree one will find them on. When they alight on a 
tree they run up, puffing out and contracting the conical pouch 
in the throat, which is bright yellow in the male and blue in the 
female, and licking up the ants, which form their chief food. 
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the п one avoid a bush which was in its line 
of flight in this way. The distance that they can cover depends 
on the height from the ground of the point from which the 
(the flying squirrel and flying lemur), they descend in their 
mental patch on the head disappearing, and the whole lizard be- 
coming of a brown hue, except the pouch, which retains its 
colour. : 
D. volans is by far the commonest species here, but there 
are four or five other kinds to be met with, which generally 
occur in thick forests, and are very difficult to collect, as they 
very quickly fly out of reach, and can only be obtained with the 
un. 
he common Scine, Mabuia multifasciata, a stout brown me- 
tallic lizard, ornamented with a glowing red patch along the side 
ler scincs of the genus Zygosoma recorded from the peninsula, 
most of which are either very scarce or difficult to find or very 
