AGAMAS 
“FLYING DRAGON” 
“Flying dragons” make their home high up in trees or tall grasses, de¬ 
scending to earth so rarely that they are seldom seen by man. But when 
danger threatens, these tree lizards glide gracefully to the ground with 
the help of winglike membranes which can be opened or closed at will. 
They do not actually fly. A Celeban species uses its “wings” in courtship 
display. 
These reptiles show great agility in hunting insects, leaping through 
the air like a dart; when not hunting, they lie motionless with their flat 
bodies pressed close to the bark of a tree limb. The tail of this reptile, 
though long and slender, does not easily break off. A skin sac or dewlap 
hangs from the “dragon’s” throat. This lizard lays oval white eggs in batches 
of three or four. 
There are about twenty species of “flying dragons,” varying as to size 
and color. It is a curious fact that these reptiles have the same range, the 
Indo-Malayan region, as those strange mammals, the “flying” lemurs, whose 
aerial habits they approximate. 
“BLOODSUCKER” 
The “bloodsucker” lizard is not a vampire; it owes its misleading name 
to its faculty of changing color when angry or eating: the head and neck 
turn a bright red, while the body changes from brown to yellow. Of its 
total length of fourteen inches, its tail occupies eleven. 
The female deposits about one dozen oval, soft-shelled eggs in leaf 
mold or in the cracks in a rotting log. The young require approximately 
two months to hatch. This lizard’s range is India, Afghanistan and southern 
China. 
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