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have special bluffing implements. To some extent 

 the spines of the horned toads are such, and the 

 creature swells the body so as to make these spines 

 more projecting and the body less easily swallowed. 



Fig. 55. — Moloch lizard of Australia {Moloch horridua). 



Others, however, swell their non-spinous bodies. In 

 others still — especially the frilled lizard — there are 

 frills, flaps, wattles, etc., which are erected threaten- 

 ingly—the one mentioned having a great frill around 

 the neck, " like a Queen Elizabeth collar," which it 

 turns forward over its head at its foe, and walking 

 erect on two feet, with tail elevated and mouth wide 

 open,(it makes a terrifying dash at an enemy (Fig. 56). 

 "We can not notice all of these peculiarities, but a 



