The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . iness that pervades sand or gravelin our damp, Eastern climate, unless the bottom of the cage isheated by steam or hot water pipes—rather a difficult provisionin a private collection. The rarity of this horned lizard might be accounted forin the consideration of its relatively smooth skin and absenceof head spines, rendering it an easy prey for various the general abundance of those species w
The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . iness that pervades sand or gravelin our damp, Eastern climate, unless the bottom of the cage isheated by steam or hot water pipes—rather a difficult provisionin a private collection. The rarity of this horned lizard might be accounted forin the consideration of its relatively smooth skin and absenceof head spines, rendering it an easy prey for various the general abundance of those species with bristling bodyspines and long horns upon the head might also be explained. THE LITTLE HORNED LIZARDPbrynosoma mode stum, (Girard) Appeals to Ditmarss Horned Lizard in the absence of themarginal, spiny scales, at the edge of the abdomen. It is acomparatively smooth species, and the head spines are it lacks the spiny, bristling appearance of the larger the preceding, the ear drum is exposed or but partiallycovered with granular scales, a character which removes it fromall of the succeeding horned lizards. The scales of the abdomen 156 Ti RKPTILE BOOK PLATE L. TEXAS HORNED LIZARD, cornulumCommonest and most widely distributed of the horned lizards. Found from Missouri to Texas and westward to California
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