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CHAPTER III. 
RIZARDS. 
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[HE Australian Continent, with its vast expanses 
of virgin forest, rugged rock, and arid sand, 
is, par excellence, the dwelling place of a 
wonderfully diversified number of representatives of the 
Lizard tribe. These are found to range in dimensions 
from huge Monitors or Varani, six or seven feet in 
length, to diminutive Skinks, Geckos and other forms 
that cannot boast of as many inches. Among this 
motley lacertilian assemblage there occur several types 
which are remarkable 
FRILLED LIZARD AT REST, p. 70. 
for their bizarre form 
and structural or physio- 
logical peculiarities. It 
has, as a consequence, 
been determined to devote 
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a short chapter to the 
