THE 
FLYING DRAGON. 
Generic Character . 
Body four-footed* tailed* and winged; 
Specific Character. 
DRAGON with the fore-legs unconnefted with 
the wings. 
It is merely in being furnifhed with a lateral expand¬ 
ed membrane, ftrengthened by a few radii, or bony 
proceffes, that this animal differs from the Lizard tribe; 
fo that it might, without impropriety, be named the 
Flying Lizard. Linnaeus however, in his celebrated 
work, the Syftema Naturae, has inftituted a diftinfl 
genus for it, under the title of Draco or Dragon. 
This animal is an inhabitant of Africa, and like ma¬ 
ny other of the fmaller Lizards, delights in wandering 
about trees, and from the peculiar mcchanifm of its la¬ 
teral membranes, is enabled to fpring from bough to 
bough, and fupport itfelf in air for a moment or two, 
in the manner of a flying Squirrel. Like other Li¬ 
zards, it feeds on infefts, and it is not improbable that 
the remarkable gular pouch with which it is furnifhed, 
may be a provifion of Nature, for retaining for fome 
time, a number of final 1 infefls which it may colleft, 
to be afterwards fwallowcd more at leifure. 
This 
