428 A DESCRIPTION OP 
Holland, and one (C. vulgaris,) in the south of Europe; 
but this animal has never been found in any part of Ame- 
rica. Chameleons live in trees, hanging by their long 
prehensile tail to the branches. 
THE CROCODILE OF THE NILE. 
(Crocodilus vulgaris.) 
THIS animal is frequently thirty feet long. The female 
lays about twenty eggs twice or thrice a year in the sand, 
where they are hatched by the heat of the sun ; and the 
mother is said to take no care of the young ones. The 
head of this species, as of all the true Crocodiles, is twice 
as long as it is broad ; the snout is pointed and unequal ; 
and the eyes, which are small, are placed very far asun- 
der. The colour is a greenish bronze, speckled with 
