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The above is a description of the typical male of the 

 Jersey form. I shall now describe the varieties, as 1 have 

 observed them. 



Var. A. (male). — Plates covering the head as in the 

 type, but without any central spot. Back, not speckled with 

 black and gold, but of a uniform grass green with very 

 irregular and scantily disposed black specks. The blue 

 colour on the throat much less vivid than in the type. This 

 variety most nearly approaches the continental form. 



Var. B. (male). — Resembling Var. A., but having the 

 black markings more abundant, and disposed in a somewhat 

 defined pattern, so that in form and arrangement they are very 

 like the spots on a leopard. This variety is rare, and as far as 

 I can discover, is confined to a limited area ; viz., Portelet 

 Bay, Jersey, and the hills adjacent. 



In the female there is a greater tendency to variation. 

 What I consider to be the type is coloured and marked as 

 follows : — 



Plates of the head as in Var. A. of the male. Back 

 grass-green, Avith a double row of brownish-black markings 

 which almost meet in the median line. Specimens thus 

 coloured might easily be mistaken for intermediates between 

 Vars. A. and B. of the male, but the sex is evident by the 

 smaller head, and less powerful jaws ; and also by there being 

 only the slightest shade of blue on the throat. 



Var. A. (adult female). — Like the type just described, 

 but with a creamwhite line on the outerside of the rows of 

 brownish-black dots. These dots are in colour more inclined 

 to brown than black, and are more rectangulai* in form. (It 

 is not easy to decide which variety should really be considered 

 the typical female, the one 1 have so described, or this cream- 

 lined one, as both forms are about equally numerous.) 



Var. B. (adult female). — Uniform grass-green on the 

 dorsal side, beneath paler yellow than the others. Sometimes 

 the green with a glaucous tinge. This variety, which again 

 approaches the continental form, is rare. I have only seen 

 about half a dozen specimens among many hundreds of the 

 others. 



The changes which take place in the coloration of the 

 Green Lizard as it advances to maturity form an interesting- 

 study, and it is these changes which have given rise to the 

 idea that there are endless varieties. 



The young ones, which are first in evidence about the end 

 of June, and are then from two to three inches in length, are 

 of a beautiful pale brown tint, without marking of any kind 



