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Eooidam, Kimb. (G. Gain) ; Fort Eichmond, Herbert (W. H. Wayland) ; 
Victoria West (P. D. Morris); Oudtshoorn (J. L. Cairncross) ; Gordon's 
Bay (J. H. Power). 
This lizard inhabits rocky locaUties, being common on the Kimberley 
kopjes, where it hves along with Zonurus polyzomis, which in winter may 
be found hibernating in the same cleft therewith. It is very alert and shy. 
Only to a very slight extent can it change colour on irritation, but in 
different districts it may show great differences in colouration ; the gor- 
geous hues of some specimens taken at Gordon's Bay in December, 1910, 
quite surpass those of Kimberley examples in their breeding attire. The 
colours of the breeding male are as follows : under- surfaces a glowing 
ultramarine blue, the sides of the body reddish brown or purple, and of 
the tail a rich lemon colour, the dorsal surfaces varying shades of pink, 
but usually dark, often covered with dots, which sometimes form a 
network ; sometimes the dorsal surface has brown ocelli on a lighter 
background, and there may or may not be a pale median band. The 
eggs are similar in size and number to those of aculeata, and, like it, 
this species is both herbivorous and insectivorous. 
Agama kirki Boul, B.M. Cat., I., 354. 
Marandellas (O. A. Kidwell) ; Insiza (G. French). 
Agama atricollis Smith; B.M. Cat., I., 358. 
Marandellas (O. A. Kidwell) ; Francistown (C. Butler, H. McLelland). 
The eggs measure 22 x 14 mm., and a clutch contains twelve to 
fourteen of them. 
Family ZONURID^. 
ZoNUEus GiGANTEUS Smith; B.M. Cat., II., 253. 
Ventersburg (F. Smith). 
Zonurus cordylus (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., II., 256. 
Paarl (G. French); Kalk Bay (J. C. Moran, J. H. Power); Somerset 
Strand (J. H. Power). 
Zonurus jonesi Boul., Ann. Mg. Nat. Hist. (6), VII., 417. 
This species occurs at Kimberley (G. Gain, J. H. Power), but is not 
indigenous, as it is found only in the neighbourhood of the mines, and 
has undoubtedly been introduced from Bechuanaland along with the 
firewood used in the compounds. 
