LIZARDS. 85 
Kingi, previously described, the natural pabulum of Moloch consists exclusively of 
insects, but in this particular type is restricted to ants of the minutest size. The 
small black evil-odoured 
species, common in both 
South and Western <Aus- 
tralia, was always a prime 
favourite with the speci- 
mens kept by the author, 
and wherever these ants 
abounded, in conjunction 
with a_ sufficiently warm 
temperature, no difficulty 
was experienced in main- 
taining these lizards in per- 
fect health. Moloch horridus 
is by no means a_ rapid 
W, Saville-Kent, Photo 
traveller, its utmost speed MOLOCH OR SPINOUS LIZARDS FEEDING AT AN ANT TRACK, p. 86. 
being one which is easily overtaken by a man’s moderate walking pace. Consequently, 
no risk of losing them was hazarded by turning them loose by the roadside, or in a 
garden walk where a banquet of ants was readily accessible. A favourite pasture ground 
of some half-a-dozen specimens brought by the author from the Gascoigne district to 
Perth, in Western <Aus- 
tralia, was the Govern- 
ment Gardens in the last- 
named City, many of the 
paths of which picturesque 
serounds abounded’ with 
7 ant-tracks. Liberated 
there, they would soon 
settle down to feeding 
in a row, and the number 
of ants an individual lizard 
would assimilate was some- 
what astonishing. On 
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