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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Respecting this remarkable Lizard, Mr. Cunningham’s 
journal contains the following remarks. “ I secured a lizard 
of extraordinary appearance, which had perched itself upon 
the stem of a small decayed tree. It had a curious crenated 
membrane like a ruff or tippet round its neck, covering its 
shoulders, and when expanded, which it was enabled to 
do by hieans of transverse slender cartilages, spreads five 
inches in the form of an open umbrella. I regret that my 
eagerness to secure so interesting an animal did not admit of 
sufficient time to allow the lizard to shew by its alarm or 
irritability how far it depended upon, or what use it made 
of, this extraordinary membrane when its life was threat- 
ened. Its head was rather large, and eyes, whilst living, 
rather prominent ; its tongue, although bifid, was short and 
thick, and appeared to be tubular.”— MSS. 
Captain King informs me, that the colour of the tongue 
and inside of the mouth was yellow. 
2. Uaranus varius, Merrem. 
Lacerta varyi, JVhitey Jour, of a Voy, to New Holland^ 253, 
t. 38. Shaw, Nat. Misc. t. 83. 
Tupinambis variegatus, Dawfi?. jRepL iij. 76. 
Monitor bigarre, Cuv. Reg\,Amm. ij. 24. 
This species, better known to English Dealers under the 
name of The Lace Lizard^ is peculiar in having the two 
series of the scales, placed on the upper part of the centre 
of the tail, raised into a biserrated ridge, and in the outer 
toe, or rather thumb, of the hinder-foot being long, and 
reaching to the penultimate distal joint of the first or longest 
toe ; the claws are compressed, sharp. 
specimen for the Appendix of my work. The plate was engraved 
by Mr. Curtis, from an exceedingly correct drawing made by my 
friend, Henry C. Field, Esq.— P. P. K. 
