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A Tropical Reptile near Richmond, Indiana. 



By D. W. DEiN-xis. 



A large reptile, Iguana tnbercnlata, was taken three miles from Rich- 

 mond, IncL, in October. The man who shot it, a negro, undertook to carry 

 it home by the tail and broke off what he estimates was a foot and a half 

 of the end of its tail. What remains is about three and a half feet long. 

 As this is a tropic species, we suppose that it must have escaped from 

 some traveling show or from some private collection. No clue has been 

 fomid. The skin will be prepared for the Earlham museum by Ward of 

 Rochester. ' 



