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The large Green and fpotted Lizard, 
IT T is here reprefented of its natural Bignefs: I met with it alive, 
I in the Poffeffion of a Perfon whofe Name I have forgot, who ftaid 
in London only for a little while, but gave me Liberty to make a 
Draught of it, and told me it was brought from Jamaica. 
The Head,- all the Legs, Sides, and under Part of the Body, are of 
a fine green Colour; the Top of the Head is cover’d with broad 
'Scales ; the Sides, and under Part of the Head, with fmaller Scales; 
it has"a Kind of Necklace under its Throat, expreffed in the Figure. 
It extends a Black forked Tongue from its Mouth ; the Ear-hole is 
pretty far behind the Eye, which is of a black Colour. The upper 
Side, from Head to Tail exclufive, is of a dark-brown, or dusky Co¬ 
lour, cover’d with very fmall Scales like Studs, variegated with yellow- 
ifh Lines, eroding each other, and forming an irregular Kind of Net¬ 
Work, as reprefented on each Side, from the fore Legs to the Hinder ; 
it is marked with fine Bine oval Spots, each Spot being furrounded 
with a dusky or black Colour ; the Tail js cover’d with longifh Scales, 
which run round it in regular Rows to its End, all of a dark Brown, 
with a greeni® Cad. The Belly hath broad tranfverfe Scales running 
acrofs it; it hath five Toes on each Foot, with fmall fharp Nails; the 
hinder Feet feem to have a Thumb and four diftindt Fingers. 
Mr. Petiver in his Works has, I believe, figur’d this fame Lizard. See his 92d 
Plate , Fig. i. He having drawn it with the Back upwards, it doth not (how the Spots 
on the Sides, which however he has mentioned. He fays, his is from Gibraltar, and 
calls it a Gibraltar Lizard , finely embroidered on the Back with brown Nets, and 
yellowifh Specks, with bluifh Spots on the Sides. Tl his beautiful Creature, he lays, 
was prefented to him alive, and lived above three Months after it was brought over, 
without any Food, and died in the Winter. Though Mr. Petiver has not mentioned 
the Head and other Parts being Green, as I have deferibed them, I fuppofe he omitted 
that as aThing common to many Lizards, and wrote only what he found to be extra¬ 
ordinary in this. I take his and mine to be of the fame Species and Country, though 
he and I have been differently informed as to the Native Place. What is brought to us 
by Ships that have been on trading Voyages, is often faid to be of the Country from 
whence the Ship came lafl:. 
The Butterfly here figur’d, only to give an Adtion to the Lizard, is found on Cur¬ 
rant Bufhes in England: The Body is of a Gold-Colour with black Spots; the Wings 
are of a Cream-Colour, with many black Spots and Streaks; the upper Wing: have 
each a tranfverfe Bar of Gold-Colour crols their Middles, between two Rows of black 
Spots. 
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