4g6 MISCELLANEOUI WONDHM of NATOB*' 
a long missile body, furnished with a dilated, and 
tubular tip, by means of which the animal 
with great ease, darting out its tongue in the y 
wood-pecker, and retracting it instantaneously 
prey m its tip. It can also support a long i 
hence arose the popular idea of the chameleon beui- ^ 
by air alone. gifd' 
A very interesting account ot the chameleon 
Forbes in his Oriental Memoirs. This great cn 
remarks, is so common in India, that it is i'* ] 
thicket. He describes with great accuracy, .. 5 , j | 
following terms, one which he kept for several '' , 
The Chameleon of the Concan, including | 
about nine inches long ; the body only Iran Li'i ' 
varying in circumference, as it is more or less ''’‘^[,(,iil‘: ||j 
head, like that of a fish, is iinmoveably fixed to jf 
but every iuconvenieiice is removed by ®truc 
eyes, which, like spheres rolling on an invisiD^ 
placed in deep cavities, projecting from the ' ,-5 3 '’jC ' 
small perforation in the exterior convexity ‘’I’J s’’’'/ 
pupil, surrounded by a yellow iris, which, by 
formation and motion ot the eye, enables the ly- 
what passes before, behind, or on either side 5 ‘ ,|iiipy ' 
give one eye all these motions, while the te <>'»'/ 
fcctly still: a hard rising protects these . die‘!y 
another e.xtends from the forehead to the nostn ’ 1 ’^'/' 
is large, and furnished with teeth, with a ’ V** 
length of the body, and hollow like an ® ^ P.jj jt 
■it darts nimbly at Hies and other insects, v'h“' its ^ 
prefer to the aerial food generally supposed (*' 
nance. The legs are longer than usual in ‘ •*" ^ 
on the fore-feet are three toes nearest the 
w'ithout ; the hinder exactly the reverse ; • 
it clings fast to the branches, to which it ^ . lli^ 
twines itself by the, tail, and remains suspci'di^" 
granulated like shagreen, except a rai'S® , ^ 
censes, or denticulaiions, on the ridge ot 
are always of the same colour as the body j 
of similar projeePons beneath continue jjuf . ii) J'; 
uotwithstandiug any metamorphosis of the a ^ joiift ^ 
“ The general colour of the chameleon, 
possession, was a pleasant green, spotted "* 
