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The large Green and fpotted Lizard. 
T T is here reprelented of its natural Bignefs : I met with it alive, 
J[ in the Poffemon of a Perfon whofe Name I have forgot, who ftaid 
in London only for a little while, but gave me Liberty to make a 
Draught of it, and told me it was brought from Jamaica. 
The Head, all the Legs, Sides, and under Part of the Body, are of 
a fine green Colour ; the Top of the Head is cover’d with broad 
Scales ; the Sides, and under Part of the Head, with fmaller Scales ; 
it has a Kind of Necklace under its Throat, exprefled in the Figure. 
It extends a Black forked Tongue from its Mouth ; the Ear-hole is 
pretty far behind the Eye, which is of a black Colour. The upper 
Side, from Head to Tail exclufive, is of a dark-brown, or dusky Co- 
lour, cover’d with very final! Scales like Studs, variegated with yellow- 
ilk Lines, croffing each other, and forming an irregular Kind of Net- 
Work, as reprefented on each Side, from the fore Legs to the Hinder ; 
it is marked with fine Blue oval Spots, each Spot being furrounded 
with a dusky or black Colour ; the Tail is cover’d with longifh Scales, 
which run round it in regular Rows to its End, all of a dark Brown, 
with a greenifb Gaft. The Belly hath broad tranfverfe Scales running 
acrofs it; it hath five Toes on each Foot, with fmall ftiarp Nails ; the 
hinder Feet feem to have a Thumb and four diftindt Fingers. 
Mr. Petiver in bis Works has, I believe, figur’d this fame Lizard. See his gzd 
Plate, Fig. i. He having drawn it with the Back upwards, it doth not fhow the Spots 
on the Sides, which however he has mentioned. He fays, his is from Gibraltar, and 
c41s it a Gibraltar Lizard , finely embroidered on the Back with brown Nets, and 
yellowifh Specks, with bluifh Spots on the Sides. This beautiful Creature, he fays, 
was prefented to him alive, and lived above three Months after it was brought over* 
without any Food, and died in the Winter. Though Mr. Petiver has not mentioned 
the Head and other Parts being Green, as I have defcnbed them, I fuppofe he omitted 
that as aThing commoi to many Lizards, and wrote only what he found to be extra- 
ordinary in this. I take his and mine to be of the fame Species and Country, though 
he and I have been differentlv informed as to the Native Place. What is brought to us 
by Ships that have been on trading Voyages, is often faid to be of the Country from 
whence the Ship came laft. 
The Butterfly here figur’d, only to give an A&ion to the Lizard, is found on Cur- 
rant Bufhes in England: The Body is of a Gold-Colour with black Spots ; the Win^s 
are of a Cream-Colour, with many black Spots and Streaks 5 the upper Wings have 
each a tranfverfe Bar of Gold-Colour crois their Middles, between two Rows of black 
Spots. 
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