THE 
SCINCOID LIZARD, 
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Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed, naked. 
Specific Character. 
LIZARD with rounded fcales, lliort legs and 
extremely Ihort toes. 
There are fome fpecies of Lizards which differ 
from the reft of the tribe in being covered with 
large rounded fcales, refembling thofe of fifhes. 
One of thefe is the Lacerta Scincus of Linnaeus, or 
the animal formerly ufed in the materia medica, 
and called the Scink. Another is a fpccies not 
mentioned by Linnaeus, but defcribed by Sloane 
and Browne in their refpctffive hiftories of Jamaica 
by the name of Galliwa/p. A third is the Lacerta 
maritima maxima of Seba, which is figured in the 
fecond volume of his Thefaurus rerum naturalium 
at plate 105, fig. 4. It is to this laft that the fpe¬ 
cies here represented bears the greateft affinity: in¬ 
deed fo great as ftarcely to juftify our regarding it 
as a diftinft fpecies: the tail however is fomewhat 
lhorter than in Seba’s animal. The tongue is not 
forked. 
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