GREAT SPOTTED LIZARD, 
WITH A FORKED OR DOUBLE TAIL. 
That most accurate and ingenious natura- 
list, Mr. George Edwards, who first figured 
and described this singular species of Lizard, 
for some time inclined to an opinion, that the 
circumstance of it's having two tails, though 
curious, might be merely accidental; but he 
was, at length, fully satisfied, on seeing other 
specimens with forked tails, that the peculiari- 
ty was perfedlly natural. 
From his description, which affords all that 
appears to be known of this curious animal^ 
as it is scarcely mentioned by any other re- 
speflable naturalist, we learn that it is about 
ten inches long, and has a forked tongue like 
the other Lizards. 
The top of the head is covered with broad 
scales of a whitish ash-colour ; the sides of thcr 
head, the neck, the sides of the belly, the legs> 
and the feet, are greyish; the eyes are black; 
the 
