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XXIX. An Account of a particular Species of - 
Cameleon: By Janies Parfons, M. D, 
of the molt carious families ; inl'omuch as to have 
engaged the attention of many natural hillorians $ 
not only on account of the particular Itrudture of its 
parts, but alfo of feveral curious phsenomena which are 
peculiar to it, in its feveral fpecies, in the different 
parts of the world. 
Thisanimal is ranged by authors under the generical 
name Lacerta, which comprehends a great variety of 
all fizes from the Crocodile to the fmallefl Lizard : but 
as the Cameleon has its various fpecies, and each fuch 
properties as are not common to any others under the 
tribe of Lacerta , they indeed delerve to be regarded 
as a particular 
However, fince authors have been very full in their 
accounts of thefe creatures ; which every one, curious 
in their enquiries into the hiftory of animals, may 
have recourfe to, colle&ed in an excellent work in- 
titled, Diclienaire raifomie des Animaux , I (hall on 1 y 
entertain the learned Society with a defcription of a 
fpecies of Cameleon which I confider as a non-defcript, 
having made a careful refearch concerning this ani- 
mal among authors, and feen feveral kinds of them, 
as well as various figures in every hiftory I am ac- 
quainted with 5 from all which the fubjedt before us 
is very different. 
F. R. S. 
Reac 
MONG the quadrupeds of the 
earth, the clafs of Cameleons is one 
It 
