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DRACO. DRAGON* 



Generic Character. 



Corpus tetrapodum, cauda- 

 tum, alatum: alis propriis. 



Body four-footed, tailed, and 

 furnished on each side 

 • with an expansile, radiat- 

 ed, wing-Hke skin. 



FLYING DRAGON. 



Draco Volans. D. hrachiis ah ala distinctis. Lin. Si/sf. Nat, 

 p. 358. 



Dragon, with the fore legs unconnected with the wings. 

 Lacerta cauda tereti, pedibus paitadactylis, alis femore connexis, 



crista gulce triplici. Amoen, Acad. 1. p. 540. 

 Lacerta volans indica. Raj. Quadr. p, 275. 

 Lacerta africana volans, s. Draco volans. Seb. 2. t. 86. f. 3. 

 Lacertus volans, s. Dracunculus. Bont. Jav. 57. t. 57* 

 Flying Dragon. Nat. Misc. 1. pi. 8. 



Th E very name of this genus conveys to the 

 mass of mankind the idea of some formidable 

 monster, and recalls to the imagination the wild 

 fictions of romance and poetry ; but the animal 

 distinguished by that title in modern natural his- 

 tory is a small and harmless Lizard, agreeing in 

 the general form of its body with the rest of that 



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