. The life-history of British lizards and their local distribution in the British Isles. WALL WALL LIZARD. [Faci>i^/>. 78. THE WALL LIZARD, LAGERTA MURALIS 79 quently other lizards, and even younger members oftheir own kind. Many of them love sugar, whichthey lick, and all require water. They are all terres-trial, preferring, according to their kind, such localitiesas yield them their particular food. Sunshine andwarmth make a marvellous change in the same in-dividual, which on dull, rainy, or cold days lies in itshole, or shows only sluggish movements. Their senseof locality is
. The life-history of British lizards and their local distribution in the British Isles. WALL WALL LIZARD. [Faci>i^/>. 78. THE WALL LIZARD, LAGERTA MURALIS 79 quently other lizards, and even younger members oftheir own kind. Many of them love sugar, whichthey lick, and all require water. They are all terres-trial, preferring, according to their kind, such localitiesas yield them their particular food. Sunshine andwarmth make a marvellous change in the same in-dividual, which on dull, rainy, or cold days lies in itshole, or shows only sluggish movements. Their senseof locality is great, or rather each individual inhabitsone place of which it knows every nook and corner,cranny, tree, and bush. It has its favourite hole tosleep in, a stone, the branch of a tree, or a wall tobask upon, and when disturbed or chased it makeswith unerring swiftness for a safe spot to retire same lizard, when once driven away from itsown locality, seems to lose all its presence of mind,flounders about, and is comparatively easily lizards are extremely curious, although shy,
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