. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE AMBLYliUyyCHVS. 281 rocky sea-beaches, and is never found—at least, I never saw one—even ten yards in shore. It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its ; The length of a full-gi-own one is from a yai-d to four feet, and they may weigh twentj^ pounds. These Lizards were occasionally seen some hundi-ed yards from the sliore swimming about. And when in the water the animal swims with perfect ease and quickness, by a serpentine movement of. its body and flattened tail, the le
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE AMBLYliUyyCHVS. 281 rocky sea-beaches, and is never found—at least, I never saw one—even ten yards in shore. It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its ; The length of a full-gi-own one is from a yai-d to four feet, and they may weigh twentj^ pounds. These Lizards were occasionally seen some hundi-ed yards from the sliore swimming about. And when in the water the animal swims with perfect ease and quickness, by a serpentine movement of. its body and flattened tail, the legs, during this time, being motionless, and closely collaj)sed on its sides. Mr. Darwin writes also :—" Their limbs and strong claws are admirably adajrted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of larva, which everywhere form the coast. In such situations a gi'oup of six or seven of these hideous reptiles may oftentimes be seen on the black i-ocks, a few feet above the surf, basking in the sun with outstretched legs. I opened the stomach of several, and in each case found it largely distended with minced sea-weed, of that kind which gi-ows at the bottom of the sea, at some little distance from the ; It is vei-y remarkable that these Sea Lizards should object to be driven into the water, but such is the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. London [etc] Cassell & Company, Limited
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