European glass lizard, Pseudopus apodus 1, Cape legless skink, Acontias meleagris 2, and head of the slow worm, Anguis fragilis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Edouard Travies from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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