. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE COJtMOX LIZARD. 273 It varies mucli in its colour and markings. The most common tint of the upper parts is a sandy- brown, with obscure longitudinal bands of a darker brown, and a lateral set of black round spots, each marked with a yellowish-white dot or line in the centre. There is often, according to Bell, more or less of gi-een on the sides. Some are of a rich brown colour, others of a green hue of a duUisli tint, and it is this wbich has led to the belief that a species called the Green Lizard occurs in England. The female lays he
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE COJtMOX LIZARD. 273 It varies mucli in its colour and markings. The most common tint of the upper parts is a sandy- brown, with obscure longitudinal bands of a darker brown, and a lateral set of black round spots, each marked with a yellowish-white dot or line in the centre. There is often, according to Bell, more or less of gi-een on the sides. Some are of a rich brown colour, others of a green hue of a duUisli tint, and it is this wbich has led to the belief that a species called the Green Lizard occurs in England. The female lays her eggs, to the number of twelve or fourteen, in hollows in the sand, which she excavates for the purpose, and having covered them carefully with sand, she leaves them to bo batched by solar SAND LIZAUD. SrB-GEXrS ZnOTOCA.—THE COiniOX OR VIVIPAKOUS LIZARD.* This Lizard has the temples covered •with adpressed scales, and the scales of the back are long and hexagonal, but there are no teeth on the palate. Hence it differs from the Sand Lizard, and lias been placed in a sub-genus Zootooa, and as it brings foi'th its young alive and not within the egg, it is termed the Viviparous Lizard. It is an agile and pretty Lizard, frequenting heaths and banks in England and even in Scotland. It is one of the few reptiles found in Ii'eland. It is con- fined tothe latitude of England on the .Continent. Bell says :—" It comes out of its hiding-place during the warm part of the day, from the early spring till autumn has far advanced, basking in the sun, and turning its head with a sudden motion the instant that an insect comes within its view, and darting like lightning upon its prey, it seizes it with its little sharp teeth, and speedily swallows it. * Laca-ta (Zootoca) rirqxira. See note oil next 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 ma
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