I 
AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. 5. Siren. 671 
Intidbits Me, tiro. ■ 6 — 8 inches long. 
Body each lidc with a longitudirial line dividing the upper froth 
the lower part ; fcaks of a lengthened, i'quarp form ; kead 
Covered by large icily plates ; eyes minute. 
Body fubequal, round, pale, imbricate ; each fcale wth a 
brown dot ; fore-feet o ; hind-feet 2-toed, unarmed. 
Biped Lizard. 
Inhabits South ylmenca and India S abdominal foales 100. 
fubcaudal 60. 
Head, Body and tail a continued imbricate pale cylihdcr 3 
fore-feet o ; hind-feet hardly any, fubdidaftylous. 
Cylindrical Lizard. 
Inhabits the graify meadows of the deferts of Ibuthern Siberia, 
and near the rivers Sarpa, Cuma and Terek ; in general ap- 
pearance refembles a lhake, but in internal Ihufiture the 
lizard. 
Scales difpofed in an annular forha ; tail fragile, many-angled, 
much longer thaii the body ; the i'cales Iharply keeled. 
5. SIREN. Bodjp 2-footed, tailed^ naked : 
feet placed in the manner of arms, and 
furnilhed with claws. 
Body ell-ihaped ; branchiae ramified- 
Inhabits muddy aud fwampy places in South Carolina : lives 
generally under water, but fometimes appears on land ; feeds 
on ferpents, which it holds firmly between its jaws ; is fome- 
times a foot and half long ; is of a fingular ftrufture, be- 
tween the amphibious and fifli tribe, being furnilhed with ex- 
ternal gills like the latter, and feet like the former ; has a fort 
of fqueaking or finging voice ; when thrown on the ground 
breaks in pieces like fomc of the ferpents. 
Body comprelfed, long, brown, fpeckled with whitilh ; feet 
4-toed ; gill-membranes g each iidc, toothed or feathered ; 
tail bony. 
ORDER 
