THE 
MONITORY LIZARD. 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed, naked. 
Lin. Syjl. Nat. 
Specific Character, &c. 
BLACK LIZARD, marked with tranfverfe 
bands of ocellated white fpots. 
This fpecies of Lizard has obtained the name of 
Monitor, from a circumftance which feems of very 
doubtful authority. It is pretended that on light of 
the crocodile, it fets up a loud and fhrill cry through 
fear, and thus frequently w r arns travellers of the vici¬ 
nity of that formidable creature. It grows to a con- 
fiderable fize, and is of a very (lender make, and the 
tail is extremely long. The general colour of the ani¬ 
mal is black and white ; the black forming the ground¬ 
colour, and the white the variegations, which are dif- 
pofed in tranlverle bands of annulated ipots with black 
centres, and between thefe bands are generally fome 
narrow!fn ftripes of white. On the tail the variega¬ 
tions are lefs regular than on the body. The kgs 
and feet are fpotted tratlfverfely with white. On the 
belly the white prevails, which is marked more or lefs 
with 
