CHALCIDES LIZARD. 



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in Carolina. It is about five inches in lengthy, 

 with a rather large head ; the fore feet have four 

 and the hind five toes : its colour is deep brown, 

 with a double row of white spots, from the top of 

 the head to the tail, where it becomes a single row 

 to the end. Catesby adds, that it is equally inof- 

 fensive with the common water-newts of Europe. 



Snake- Lizards J with extrcmelij long hodies^ and 

 short legs. 



CHALCIDES LIZARD. 



Lacerta Chalcides, L, ferruginea, pedibus tridactylis brevissimisj 



corpore longissimo lineis sex dorsalibusfuscis. 

 Ferruginous Lizard, witli very short tridactyle feet, and very 



long body with six brown dorsal lines. 

 Lacerta Chalcides. L. catida tereti longa, pedibus pentadactylis 



brevtssimis. lAn. Syst. Nat. p. 369. 

 Caicilia major. I7np€r<it. Nat. gj. 

 Lacerta Chalcidica. Aldrov. Quadr. 638. 



The Chalcides is a native of many of the 

 warmer parts of Europe, as well as of Africa, and 

 is found of different sizes, from the length of a 

 few inches to that of a foot, or even more. Its 

 general length, however, seems to be eight or 

 nine inches The head is covered in front M^ith 

 large scales, and is terminated by a slightly taper- 

 ing, but not pointed snout: the eyes are small, 

 and the openings of the ears very distinct : there 

 is, properly speaking, no neck, the diameter con- 

 tinuing nearly equal from the head to the begin- 



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