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below the knees : both legs and feet are 
covered with a fcaly ikin of a bright orange- 
colour : the claws are blackifh. 
The little Brown Lizard is all over of a 
blueilh colour, except two lines of a 
brownifti colour, paffing down on each 
fide of the back : it is fpotted with black 
on the upper fide, and is of a lighter brown 
on the belly without fpots : they are found 
in dry banks, and other dry foils, about 
the roots of old trees, on the barks of which 
they fun themfelves, and catch flies, &c. I 
once furprized one of thefe Lizards fighting 
with a finall bird, who fat on her neft, with 
new-hatched young ones, in a vine againft 
a wall. I fuppofe the Lizard would have 
made a prey of the young, could he have 
taken them out of the nefb I faw the 
conteft for fome time ; but, on my very near 
approach, the Lizard dropped to the 
ground, and the bird flew from her neft. 
The Hawk was (hot not far diftant from 
London, and prefented to Mr. Leman, at 
the College of Phyfieians, London, as a 
curiofity, for the Angularity of its colour. 
When firft feen, it was dodging round the 
lower parts of fome old trees, and fome- 
times feemed to ftrike againft the trunks of 
the trees with its beak or talons, ftill con- 
tinuing on the wing ; the caufe of which 
could not be guefled, till after it was killed ; 
when, on opening the bird, near twenty 
of the above-defcribed Lizards were found 
in its craw, which it had artfully circum- 
vented, by fuddenly coming round upon 
them : for which reafon I thought it not 
improper to figure the Lizard with him. 
The Lizards in the craw were bitten or torn 
in two or three pieces each. Dr. Shaw, in 
his Travels to Barbary and the Levant, 
has defcribed a Hawk, which I think 
very nearly agrees with this, which he 
calls the Karaburno. (See p. 251 of his 
Travels.) His remarks are as follows: 
a des plumes fur les jambes audejfous des ge~ 
noux\ elles font couvertes aujji-bien que les 
doigts d'une peau par ecailles d'un orange 
clair : fes ongles font noirdtres. 
Le petit Lezard Brim eft de cette couleur 
fur tout le corps , excepte deux lignes bleudtres , 
qui setendent chacune le long d'un cote du dos ; 
il efl marquete de noir fur le deffus : le ven- 
tre eft dun brun plus clair , fans taches : ils 
fe tiennent d ordinaire fur la Crete des fojfes 
et dans dautres endroits fees , au pied des 
vieux arbres, fur lecorce des quels ils sebattent 
au foleil et attrapent des mouches. Je fur- 
pris un jour un de ces Lezards attaquant un 
petit ojfeau dans fon nid , oil il couvoit des 
petits nouvellement eclos ; cetoit dans une 
vigne , contre la muraille : je crois que le 
Lezafd auroit fait fa proye des petits , sil 
eut pu les tirer du nid . Je fus temoin du 
combat pendant quelque temps > mats nietant 
approche fort pres } le Lezard fe laifa tom - 
ber par terre y et loifeau senvola du nid. 
Le Faucon avoit ete tire afiez p?:es de 
Londres , et on en avoit fait prefent a Mr* 
Lemony au College des Medecins de cette 
vilky comme dune chofe curieufe , d caufe de 
la fingularite de fon plumage . Lorfquon I'ap- 
perquty il voltigeoit auteur du pied de quel- 
ques vieux arbres> dont il paroifj'oit quelque - 
fois f rapper le tronc avec fon bee ou fes ferres y 
en continuant cependant d voltiger y ce dont 
on ne put decouvir la caufe quapres l' avoir 
tue : car alors layout ouvert y on lui trouva 
dans le jabot une vingtaine des Lezards en 
quefioriy qiiil avoit attrapes adroitement y en 
fondant fubitement fur eux : et cejl ce qui 
nia engage d donner la figure du Lezard en 
meme temps . Les Lezards que Ion trouva 
dans lefiomach de loifeau etoient dechires y 
ou coupes chacun en deux ou trois morfeaux. 
Mr. Shaw, Medecin , a decrit dans fes Voy- 
ages en Barbaric et au Levant , un Faucon y 
qui me paroit rejj'embler de fort pres d celui - 
ci : il lappelle Karaburno *. Void fes 
* Shaw’s Travels, page 251. 
