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{a) Thumb and fingers all extended. Hand lifted up and down to imitate 
movements of feet (Fig. P). 
Spencer, Tempe Downs. 
(/;) Hand semi-prone, fingers extended, the index rather above the rest 
Hand in this position moved forward with oscillatory, undulatory movements, in 
which the prone and mid-prone positions quickly succeed one another (Fig. Q). 
Stirling, George Gill Range. 
(<r) At Alice Springs the movements of the hand were the same, but the 
lingers were held close together.—(Gillen). 
Native name, “ I-chunpa.” 
Iguana. Larger forms, especially Vnranus goiildii find V. pnnctatus. 
(a) This is a combination of the signs for the Perenti and small lizards. 
The fingers are first extended as in sign for the former, then I., HI., IV. and V. 
are bent inwards, but not quite so much as in Fig. N, 
and II., which remains extended, is moved so as to 
imitate the waggling tail (Fig. R). 
Spencer, Tempe Downs. 
[Note by Professor Spencer :—I think the series of 
gestures for small lizards, Perenti and iguanas, as I'epre- 
sented by Figs. N, P and R, is rather interesting. In 
that for small lizards the striking feature is the length 
and motion of the tail—hence the extension and move¬ 
ment of the first finger. In the Perenti it is the size which 
is the one striking feature, and this is evidently expressed 
by the extension of the fingers as far as possible. In the other iguanas it is both 
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