FLYING DRAGON. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body naked ; furnished on each side with a wing-like skin. 
Four legs ; each foot divided into five toes. 
Tail very long. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Draco volans. D. brachiis ab ala distinctis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1 . p. 1056. 
Dragon with wings not attached to the fore 
legs. 
Lacerta cauda tereti, pedibus pentadactylis, 
alis femqre connexis, crista gulae triplici . 
Amcen. Acad. 1 . p. 540. 
Lacerta africana volans, sive Draco volans. 
Sel. Mus. 2. pi. 86. f. 3. 
Lacerta volans indica. Raj. Quadr. p. 2j5. 
Flying Dragon. Shaw Gen. Zool. 3. p. 117- pi. 54. Nat. 
Misc. 1 . pi. 8. 
The very name of this creature, will recall to the 
imagination of our readers the terrific dragon that 
filled the minds of poets, and was so mpeh cele- 
brated in the romances of the middle ages. The 
idea of this airy monster probably originated from 
