80 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 
In concluding this notice of the Frilled Lizard attention may be directed to 
the remarkable manner in which this singular species lends itself to certain 
of the resentments of the mythical dragon depicted by Chinese artists. The 
photograph from a_ roughly stuffed skin, reproduced on page 79, will amply 
suffice to illustrate this very suggestive resemblance. Although the lizard under 
discussion is entirely unknown in China, it is a well-known fact that from time 
immemorial the Malay traders have been accustomed to visit the northern coast line 
of Australia for the prosecution of the Béche-de-Mer or Trepang fisheries, the produce 
of such fishing going to the Chinese market. It is by no means improbable that 
through such a source skins of the Frilled Lizard found their way to quarters where 
they were artistically immortalised in the manner suggested. It is quite within the 
bounds of possibility, indeed, that a careful investigation into the wealth of con- 
ventional pictorial art, for which the Chinese are so eminent, would reveal the fact 
that many of the animals peculiar to the ‘northern districts of Australia were 
known to them centuries previous to the discovery and opening up of that Island- 
Continent by Europeans. 
The publication by the writer, in “ Nature” and elsewhere, of the data here 
recorded concerning the bipedal perambulation of Chlamydosaurus has elicited the 
statement in the “ American Naturalist” for July, 1896, that a Mexican lizard, 
Corythophanes Hernandezii, was described some years since by M. F: Sumichrast as 
possessing similar locomotive peculiarities. A reference, however, to the original 
publication quoted, “Note sur les Mceurs de quelques Reptiles du Mexique”: (Archives 
des Science Physiques, T. XIX, Geneva, 1864), by no means substantiates the 
correctness of the suggestion made. The passage relating to the locomotion of 
Corythophanes reads as follows :—“Quant il court il reléve le haut au corps presque 
verticalement, tout en fouettant le sol avec sa queue, ce qui lui donne alors une allure 
fort singuliére.” The vertical elevation of the body here described would appear to 
correspond with the erect locomotive attitude already attested to on page 73 with 
relation to certain species of Amphibolurus which is also frequently assumed by 
Chlamydosaurus when traversing short distances. There is, at any rate, no indication 
of the animal progressing in an absolutely bipedal fashion, while it is distinctly stated 
that the lizard continually strikes or flogs the ground with its tail, in place of carrying 
that appendage raised above it as obtains under corresponding conditions in Chlamy- 
dosaurus. It is, at the same time, quite possible that Corythophanes raises its fore 
feet from the ground when running, and the practical demonstration of this fact in such 
