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when shaken off, it soon runs up another hush, 
where it seems quite at home among the leaves. 
The Sassafras {Laiirus sassafras) is its favourite 
THE GREEN ANOLIS, ON A SASSAFRAS LEAF, 
resort. It feeds on insects : I once saw one with a 
brown grasshopper in its mouth : I should have 
thought it would need more agility than it appears 
to possess, to catch such prey as this ; but probably 
it effects its purpose by creeping cautiously towards 
its prey, and then seizing it by a sudden spring, as 
a cat does a bird. I have observed that, when pur- 
sued to the end of a twig or branch, it will often 
