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THE 
SCALY-FOOTED LIZARD. 
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Generic Character. 
Body (in most species) four-footed, elongated, 
tailed; without any secondary integu¬ 
ment. 
Specific Character, &c. 
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Olivaceous LIZARD, speckled witli black, 
without fore-feet, and with scaly, undi¬ 
vided hind-feet, 
Lc Lepido])ode. 
Cepede. Afui.Mus. Hist. Nal. No. 21. p, IQ I. 
The lazanl here represented in its natural sizi; is 
a native of Australasia, and, aeeordinj;* to the Count 
de Cepede, by >vhoin it is described in tlie work 
quoted beneath the speeilic character, dilfers froni 
every other species yet known in having the liind- 
feet perfectly destitute of divisions or Iocs, and con¬ 
sisting merely of a roundish scaly expansion or 
process. In general liahit it rcscmlilcs the Laciata. 
apus, anguina, hipcs, !cc. and is oi a greenish or 
olivaceous colour, variegated by minute blackish 
