THE 
SINGLE-STRIPED LIZARD. 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed, naked. 
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Specific Character. 
J3ROWN LIZARD, paler beneath, with a white 
dorfal line forked over the head, and un- 
guiculated feet, lamellated beneath. . 
This fpecies of Lacerta is extremely rare, and it may 
be doubted whether it has yet been defcribecl. It cer¬ 
tainly is not a Linnaean fpecies, nor does it occur in 
the numerous collection of Seba. The fize of the fpe- 
cimens which I have examined is rather fmall, viz. 
from about fix to nine inches in length. The colour is 
a foft yellowifh brown, paler beneath: the tail is cream- 
coloured, varied with longitudinal marks of brown, 
and on the back of the animal is a very remarkable 
white, or rather cream-coloured broad line, which di¬ 
vides on each fide the top of the head in the manner of 
a fork, the extremities of each divifion juft reaching to 
the eyes. The Ikin of this Lizard, when clofely ex¬ 
amined, is flightly exafperated, efpecially towards the 
tail, with minute tubercles, but they are fo extremely 
fmall that they are not perceptible without a clofe ex¬ 
amination. The feet are tranfverfely lamellated beneath. 
The 
