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SUMATRA, 
tion fo obvious as in thefe. The female carries two eggs at a time, one 
in the lower, and one in the upper part of the abdomen, on oppofitc 
fides. They are called by the Mala3^3 chmhah^^ from the noife they 
make. 
The cameleon, and the flying lizard are alfo found on Sumatra. The 
formerj including the tail, are about a foot and a half longi green, 
with brown fpots, as I h^ve them preferved. When feen alive in the 
woods, they are generally green ; but not from the refledion of the 
trees, as fome have fuppofcd; and when caught, they ufually turn 
brown ; feemingly the elfed of fear ; as men become pale. Like others 
of the genus, they feed on flies, which the large fizc of their mouths 
is well adapted for catching. They have live long toes, armed with 
Jharp claws, on the fore and hind feet. Along the fpine, from the head 
to the middle of the back, little membranes ftand up, like the teeth of 
a faw. The flying lizards are about eight inches long* The membrane 
which conflitutes the wings, and which does not extend from, and con- 
ne<5t with, the fore and hind leg, as in the bat fpecies, is about two or 
three inches In length. They have flapped ears, and a kind of bag, or al- 
phorges, under the jaws. In other refpeifls they much refemble the 
cameleon in appearance. They do not take diftant flights but merely 
from tree to tree, or from one bough to another. The country people 
take them in fpringes faftened to the items. 
With frogs and toads the fwamps every where abound. Thefe fall a 
prey to the fnakes, which are found here of all fizes-, though the largeft 
I ever happened to fee, was no more than twelve feet long. This was 
killed in a hen-houfe, where it was devouring the poultr)^ It is very 
furprizing, but no lefs true, that they will fwallow animals of three or 
four times their own apparent bulk or circumference ; having in their 
jaws or throat, a compreffive force, that reduces the prey to a conve- 
nient dimcnfion. I have feen a fmall fnake, with the hind legs of a frog 
flicking out of it's mouth, each of them nearly equal to the final ler 
pares of it*s own body, which io the tfaickeft was not more than a man's 
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