Common flying dragon, Draco volans, jumping from a tree at its prey. Le Dragon, Draco viridis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alexandre Manceau after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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