La cert a |3 Chameleon. Arabian Cdmeliom Linnaeus 
makes this a variety of the Egyptian , from which it differs in hav¬ 
ing the top of the head flat, where the other rifes into a high 
ridge; and alfo in having the middle of the throat and belly fer- 
rated: it is likewife laid, never to exceed fix inches in length. 
Camelicns , like fome fpecies of monkies, twift the end of their 
tails round branches of trees, to afiift them in climbing: take in- 
feds, which is their only food, by darting their tongue at them; 
which in this fpecies is four inches long; and that of the Egyptian 
ten, and. covered at the end with a glutinous matter. T. he man¬ 
ner of moving their eyes deferves particular notice; one being 
often fixed, whilft the other moves; and one loons downwaids at 
the fame time that the other looks upwards. 
The above animal derives its name from the country it inhabits, 
viz. Arabia: though it is to be met with in Egypt ; and alfo in Bar - 
bary, where it is called ’Eait ah and Bouiah. 
