:::;:;;:av ALONG THE STREAM OF DEATH ;«j:::;:::: 



It was evident that, before my attempt to capture 

 the Iguana, he had once been assailed, perhaps by 

 hawk or eagle, and his tail broken off. The new 



T-^wt**.' -'^VT'm 



BROKEN TAIL OF IGUANA 



scalation is plainly shown in the photograph, two joints 

 below the second break, — fully seven inches of the 

 nine which came off in my grasp being sham tail. Soon 

 the break heals over and the new g-rowth begins to 

 push out. 



The adolescent cells in the exposed wedge of cartil- 

 age are so full of life and tail-making vigour that the 

 renewed member is sometimes double, or even triple. 



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