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repose it generally rests with the head so raised as to be on the level of the back. 
Its chief food appears to be ants, although vegetable substances are sometimes 
eaten. The female deposits her eggs in the sand. To a certain degree the moloch 
is endued with the power of changing its colour to harmonise with its surround¬ 
ings, such changes taking place very gradually, although not unfrequently. The 
most general change is to a uniform sandy slate, or russet colour, when the 
ornamental markings almost completely disappear. In spite of its ferocious and 
somewhat forbidding appearance, the moloch is a perfectly harmless creature, its 
moloch lizard (nat. size). 
formidable-looking armour being never used for attack. In captivity it is dull 
and sluggish, undergoing fasts of a month’s duration without any apparent incon¬ 
venience. 
The Iguanoid Lizards. 
Family IGUANIDJE. 
The extensive family of lizards, of which the well-known iguanas of South 
America and the West Indies are the typical representatives, may be regarded as 
occupying the same position in America as is filled by the agamoids in the warmer 
parts of the Old World. Whereas, however, the agamoids are exclusively denizens 
of the Eastern Hemisphere, the iguanoid lizards are not absolutely confined to the 
