LITTLE BROWN LIZARD. 
neither give any farther description. This last 
might seem to be Edwards's Little Brovvn Li- 
zard ; had he not assured us, that twenty of 
them were found in the craw of a Blue Hawk, 
shot near London, which opposes Ray's, idea of 
their scarceness. Unless we may suppose, that 
Edv^ards was not very accurate in discriminat- 
ing the species. Indeed, he does not appear 
to have been well acquainted with the Lizard 
tribes ; or he would hardly have stated, that he 
*' once surprised one of these Lizards fighting 
with a small bird, who sat on her nest with 
new-hatched young ones; and supposed the 
Lizard would have made a prey of the young, 
could it have taken them out of the nest! " 
There seem to be varieties of the Brown 
Lizard, with respe£l: to the spots on the beilv, 
and colour of the stripes: but we liave exa- 
mined many specimens, and find them all 
strikingly agree in the general chara6leristics 
of the Water Lizard, though never found in 
the water : so that they appear to be a con- 
ne6ting species, between the Water and the 
Land Lizards ; possessing the extraordinary 
combination of tjie former's figure, with the 
habits of the latter. 
