. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. view. Not to be beaten, I cut a narrow my old snipe good luck, and, gatheringpassage through the grass from the nest to up my belongings, left her to finish hermy hiding-place, which latter I raised so hatching in peace. [An article by the same Author on Bird Life of the Breck District, illustrated with many photographsfrom nature, will appear iu an early number of Asimal Life.] WALL^LIZARDS Written and Illustrated with Photographs. H. G. ¥. Spueeell. WALL-LIZAEDS are a feature of Italy, and far from being its least attracti
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. view. Not to be beaten, I cut a narrow my old snipe good luck, and, gatheringpassage through the grass from the nest to up my belongings, left her to finish hermy hiding-place, which latter I raised so hatching in peace. [An article by the same Author on Bird Life of the Breck District, illustrated with many photographsfrom nature, will appear iu an early number of Asimal Life.] WALL^LIZARDS Written and Illustrated with Photographs. H. G. ¥. Spueeell. WALL-LIZAEDS are a feature of Italy, and far from being its least attractivefeature. This is saying a great deal. Italy is a land where almost everythingis beautiful except the beggars, and even they have such winning manners that onegrows to like them—provided, that is, that they try to appeal to ones love of thepicturesque and not to ones horror of the pathological. Yet the lizards hold their have one great advantage : they are to be seen everywhere. They can be foundwithout a long journey upon a moribund mule, and they need no guide to point themout and explain them inaccuiately with exasperating attempts to be humorous. There are lizards everywhere. They dash across the roads; they glance round thetrunks of trees; and, to justify their name, they swarm upon every ruin and lurk inthe chinks of every wall. During my first few days in Italy there seemed to me to be an endless number ofspecies. They were alike in grace of form and activity of movement;
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