Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . areall natives of warm climates. In the genus I., the. Isuana. back exhibits a row of elevated, compressed, pointedscales along its whole length, and which is continuedto the extremity of the tail; whilst imder thethroat is a great dewlap-hke pouch. The feet havelong toes, not webbed, with shai-j) claws, welladapted for climbing trees, while the compressedtail is the organ of p>rogression used in Cosoiox I., or GrA>A, is abundant in the WestIndies and tropical parts of America, li^-ing mostljamong trees. It attai
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . areall natives of warm climates. In the genus I., the. Isuana. back exhibits a row of elevated, compressed, pointedscales along its whole length, and which is continuedto the extremity of the tail; whilst imder thethroat is a great dewlap-hke pouch. The feet havelong toes, not webbed, with shai-j) claws, welladapted for climbing trees, while the compressedtail is the organ of p>rogression used in Cosoiox I., or GrA>A, is abundant in the WestIndies and tropical parts of America, li^-ing mostljamong trees. It attains a length of four or fivefeet. It is of a greenish-yellow colour, mottled^\ith green, the tail ringed •«ith brown. It isesteemed a most delicate article of food, and is usedby all classes of persons. It is often caught bymeans of a noose thrown over its head; dogs havealso been trained to hunt it on some of the WestIndia Irgs, where it has not opportunity of takingrefuge in trees. The eggs—which are about thesize of those of a pigeon, but have no hard shell, andare laid in the sand—are also eaten, and a
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