LIZARDS. 79 
through its cage having inadvertently been exposed 
for too long an interval to the sun’s direct rays, and, 
as it happened, before any confirmatory evidence 
could be obtained concerning the remarkable ambu- 
latory attitude of the species as is here placed on 
record of the West Australian examples. On the 
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voyage home in the “Glengarry” from Singapore 
the several specimens were, while within the tropics, 
allowed a daily constitutional run on deck at the 
end of a liberally long tether, their liberty being as 
highly appreciated by themselves as was the sight of 
their strange gait and attitudes by an interested circle 
of fellow voyagers. 
It is worthy of note that the habits of Chlamy- 
dosaurus were found to be strictly diurnal and in that 
respect contrary to those of the large arboreal Monitors 
or Varani which, as is well known, take advantage of 
the dark hours of the night in outlying settlements 
for visiting and robbing the henroosts of both eggs 
ig FRILLED LIZARDS 
and young chickens. The Frilled Lizard is guilty of pean 
no such nefarious practices and retires to rest with 
the sun, creeping into a hollow log or clinging 
perpendicularly to a tree-trunk or other suitable 
support in the attitudes indicated in the top corner 
illustration of this 
page. This picture : 
portrays a fine pair 
that shared for awhile, 
with the author, the 
accommodation of a 
mosquito-proof room 
in the verandah of 
Mr. G. S. Streeter’s 
| PROTOTYPE OF 
establishment at 
| CHINESE DRAGON ? 
H i 
eee 
Broome. 
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W. Saville-Kent, Photo, 
