. The life-history of British lizards and their local distribution in the British Isles. on is short and notvery deep, since these lizards can sometimes be seenbasking on sunny winter days before their regularappearance in the early spring. ^ As its specific name implies, the wall lizard belongsto the same family—the Lacertidse—as the greenlizard, the common viviparous lizard, and the sandlizard. The slow-worm is the only British specieswhich is not of this family. This family of Lacertida^,or the True Lizards, as they are called, comprises nearly twenty genera, with about one hundredspecies,
. The life-history of British lizards and their local distribution in the British Isles. on is short and notvery deep, since these lizards can sometimes be seenbasking on sunny winter days before their regularappearance in the early spring. ^ As its specific name implies, the wall lizard belongsto the same family—the Lacertidse—as the greenlizard, the common viviparous lizard, and the sandlizard. The slow-worm is the only British specieswhich is not of this family. This family of Lacertida^,or the True Lizards, as they are called, comprises nearly twenty genera, with about one hundredspecies, and is typical of the Old World, being foundin Europe, Asia, Africa, but not in Madagascar, nor inthe Australian region. They are most abundant inAfrica. Their northern limit coincides fairly closelywith the limit of the permanently frozen under-ground. All the Lacertid?e live upon animal food,chiefly insects, and, after them, worms and snails; butthe larger lizards take what they can master, fre- ^ Boulenger, British Maseum Catalogue. Gadow, Anvphibia and Reptiles, pp. 557, WALL LIZARD.
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