COMMON CHAMiELEON. 



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tail ; the sides rising up a little beyond the fur- 

 row : beneath the thighs is a row of papillse : all 

 the feet are furnished with five slender toes, and 

 the tail is marked into about fifty verticilli or 

 divisions. This lizard is a native of the southern 

 parts of Europe, and though remotely different 

 as a species, seems by some authors to have been 

 confounded with the Lacerta Chalcides, the name 

 Seps having been applied occasionally to both ani- 

 mals. In the British and Leverian Museums are 

 specimens agreeing in every particular with the 

 Linnsean description of the species. Its colour 

 is a livid brown above, paler or more inclining to 

 whiteness beneath. 



ChamcdeonSj ivith granulated skin, missile 

 tongue, 



COMMON CHAMELEON. 



Lacerta Chamaeleon. I<. cinerea, pileo piano, cauda tereti incma^ 



digitis duobis tribusque coadunatis. 

 Grey Chameleon, with flat crown, cylindric incurved tail, and 



toes conjoined by two and three, 

 L. Chamaeleon, L. cauda tereti hrem incurtm, digitis duohus tri- 

 busque coadunatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 364. 

 L. cinerea, pileo piano. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p^ 

 Chamaeleon. Aldr. Quad. Ovip. p. 670. Jonst. Quadr. t. 79' 

 The Chameleon. Museum Leverianum, 1. p. 194-. 



Chamaeleon. Chameleon. Millar, Cim. Phys. p. 22. t, 11. 



Few animals have been more celebrated by na- 

 tural historians than the Chameleon, which has 



