LIZARD. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body either smooth, warty, or covered with scales. 
Four legs ; the feet divided into toes. 
Tail long. 
CROCODILE. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lacerta Ciiocodilus. L. capite cataphracto, nucha carinataj 
cauda superne cristis binis lateralibus 
horrida. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . 
p. 1057. 
With a mailed head $ neck carinated ; 
tail furnished on the upper part with 
two lateral crested processes. 
Lacerta cauda compressa serrata, pedibus 
triunguiculatis, palmis pentadactylis, 
plantis tetradactylis palmatis. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 359. no. 1. 
Crocodilus. Seb. Mus. I. t. 105. 
f. 3, 4. 
Crocodilus niloticus. Jacob. Mus. 1. 
pi. 7. f. 55. 
Crocodile. . . . Shaw Gen. Zool. 3. p. 184. pi. 55. 
This very formidable creature is happily confined 
to the immense rivers of the warmer regions, where 
it grows to a large size, and becomes the terror of 
