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amphibia, reptiles. 3. Draco. 4. Lacerta, 655 
Body fmooth with contiguous dots beneath; feet palmate. 
Croaking Frog. 
2. Body above blueilh lead-colour. 
3 - Body inclining to orange. . • 11 
Inhabits America : differs only from the tree frog in having all 
the feet webbed, and the body marked with white fpots. 
3. DRACO. Body 4-footed, tailed and 
winged. 
Fore-legs dillind from the wings. Flying Dragon. 
Inhabits /i/rtVa and India ; is difHnguifhcd from the lizard 
tribe only in having a broad lateral membrane, ftrengthened 
by radii or bony procedes ; wanders about trees, and is able, 
by means of the membrane, to fpring from bough to bough, 
and lupport itielf a few moments in the air ; feeds on infefts. 
Hody afli-colour, varied and clouded with brown and whitifh, 
and covered with minute leaks ; gular pouch large, pointed ; 
tail very long, annulate with whitifli-brown. 
4. LACERTA. Body 4-footed, tailed, na- 
ked, long : legs equal. 
This is an aftive, nimble tribe, and except the aquatic ones, 
feed on iniefts : the crocodiles have both jaws moveable, and 
the largeft mouth of all animals : their body is covered with 
callolities ; the chameleons have a prehenfile tail ; fit on 
trees ; walk flowly and irregularly ; have no teeth ; eyes 
large, fixed in a wrinkled locket ; tongue very long, worm- 
Ihaped, with which they draw in flies ; head angular, co- 
vered with very thin lucid tubercles or fcales. 
A. Tail %-edged, divided into fegments ; tongue very 
port. * 
Head armed ; nape carinate ; tail above with 2 
crefts. Crocodile of the Nile. 
Snout much Ihorter than the head ; nape naked. . 
Inhabits the Nik: i8 — 25 feet long ; is of amazing fwiftnels, 
voracity and ftrength ; Imells o^ mulk ; roars hidaoufly ; de- 
vours men and other large animals, both, aquatic and terref- 
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