yg AFRICAN CAMELEON 
HE chameleon of Europe is an absurd little 
creature, looking more like a little tree-gnome 
than a living animal. Its head is crowned 
with a peaked hood, and its great globular eyes are 
covered with lids with peep-holes at the centers; the 
tail is quite as long as the body, a most convenient 
tail that can be twisted about twigs, and thus help the 
lizard in climbing about; the toes are also arranged 
for grasping twigs. The tongue of this chameleon 
shows a remarkable development; it is shaped like a 
cylinder enlarged at the tip, and can be thrust out 
several inches; it is covered witha viscid saliva, which 
glues fast toit any unfortunateinsect which it touches. 
These little lizards are such active fly-catchers that 
from early times they have been kept about the 
houses of the peoples living on the Mediterranean 
coasts. 
HOUSE 
The house must be a box, covered with wire net- 
ting; it should have sand in the bottom, and there 
should be set within it a strong branching plant for 
the little creature to climb about upon. 
FOOD 
Chameleons are very fond of insects, especially of 
flies, and these should be let loose in the cage. They 
should be well fed, and with live insects. If flies and 
other insects fail, they may be fed meal worms with 
forceps. 
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