COURTSHIP AND MATING OF REPTILES I51 
Odorous attractions are sometimes possessed by the male, 
as in the Musk-Duck (Cazrina moschata), a species which ranges 
from Mexico to the Argentine Republic, and is known in captivity 
by the erroneous name of “ Muscovy ”-Duck. 
It must not be imagined that the courtship of any particular 
species necessarily exemplifies the Law of Battle or the Law 
of Beauty only, for in many cases strength and esthetic qualities 
are both called into play. 
COURTSHIP AND MATING OF REPTILES (REpTILIA). 
Tue Law or Batrte.—Some male Reptiles engage in com- 
bats with one another during the mating season, a habit which 
has been observed in Alligators, some Tortoises, and certain 
Fig. 1111.—Owen’s Chameleon (Chameleo Owen). Female on left; male on right 
Lizards. Among the latter the males may be provided with 
strong spines or horns on the head, especially so in some of the 
Chameleons (fig. 1111), and these weapons are no doubt used 
in their fights with one another. The jealous ferocity of the 
American Alligator (Alhgator Mississippiensis) is thus graphically 
touched off by Cyrus W. Butler (in Bzg Game of North America): 
—‘On the whole, he is a sluggish, very sluggish, animal, not 
even being an active hunter; but loafs around in hope that some- 
thing may turn up—that probably a fish may unwittingly swim 
near enough to be snapped up by a quick motion of his long 
jaws. But lazy and sluggish as he is, and cold as is his blood, 
there are times when it must course swiftly through his veins; 
for on a little island of muck, in the centre of a pond, a female 
