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blue beneath. But some specimens from the same island sent to me 

 alive by Sr. Ferrer are only of a very dark brown, with the dark 

 markings (lines and spots) of the Minorca form perfectly distinguish- 

 able; pale bluish green or turquoise-blue spots on the sides of the lapis- 

 blue belly, which may bear small black spots. Now that they have 

 been in spirits for many years. Lord Lilf ord's specimens also show very 

 distinctly the dorsal markings. Some of the black specimens from La 

 •Guardia Island, Colomer Island, and Cabrera Island, aU near Majorca, 

 have numerous pale bluish green spots on the sides of the body 

 and on the limbs. The young of these melanistic insulars are 

 described by Braun as brown above, with dark spots and lines, 

 dark brown or black on the sides, with numerous blue spots, tail dark 

 green ; the beUy is greenish in the middle, black spotted with blue on 

 the sides. 



