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sional scales of lighter and darker color. Wing membranes 

 darker with numerous (usually) roundish spots of bluish to 

 yellowish green, the outer edge light salmon washed with gray. 

 Head with the interorbital dark spot; the nuchal spot absent; 

 dark markings either present or absent on the sides of the head. 

 Below, belly and wing membranes salmon to brick-red, usually 

 with only one large or small dark spot in the outer margin of 

 wing ; gular appendage canary yellow at tip, the remainder bright 

 purple to wine color with a green wash at base ; throat and chin 

 with darker reticulations; belly with very dim reticulations of 

 darker color either present or absent. 



The males can make extremely rapid changes of color. They 

 change from light to dark green, then to black or reddish 

 brown in less than a minute and vice versa. When the brown 

 specimens are placed in alcohol, the green returns largely and 

 when fixed is blue green to blue, the salmon largely disappearing 

 below. In consequence of the color changes the head markings 

 vary considerably in preserved specimens. 



The species was abundant in the coconut groves near the moun- 

 tains in Zamboanga. Specimens were also taken on Bongao and 

 Simonor. On the latter island they were especially numerous in 

 the coconut trees. With the aid of the Samals a large series 

 was collected in the village of Tubig Indangan. The species was 

 seen in Jolo, but no specimens were acquired. 



Draco bimaculatus Giinther. Plate II, figs. 1 and 2, 



A single specimen was obtained in the mountains near Zam- 

 boanga (city) . It is the smallest species of the genus found in 

 the Islands. It was also observed in Tawitawi. The paper- 

 white gular appendage and the slender body render it easily 

 identified at a considerable distance. 



Draco cornutus Giinther. 



This species has been reported from Jolo by Werner.^ I failed 

 to find it there. 



Mabuya multifasciata Gray. 



Specimens were taken in Zamboanga, Bubuan (Tapiantana 

 Group), Jolo, Bubuan (Tapian Group), Papahag, and Bongao. 

 Specimens from the last two localities have a broad brilliant 

 brick-red stripe beginning behind the eye and continuing some 

 distance along the side. It is present in both sexes. Those 

 found on the other islands sometimes have an orange or light 

 spot laterally, but it is absent in females. 



'Mitt. Natur. Mits. Hamb. (1910), 27 (2), 9. 



