. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2S2 XATURAL HISTORY. A species of the genus leads a terresti'ial life on the same islands, and is the yl»(i/yr/(//?ic/t«6 svbcristatus (Gray). This species, wi-ites Mr. Darwin, " dilierently from the last, is contined to the central islands of the Archipelago, namely, to Albemarle, James, Bariington, and Indefatigable. To the southward, iu Charles, Hood, and Chatham Islands, and to the northward, in Towers, Bindloes, and Abingdon, I neither saw nor heard of any. It would appear as if this species had been created in the centre of the
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2S2 XATURAL HISTORY. A species of the genus leads a terresti'ial life on the same islands, and is the yl»(i/yr/(//?ic/t«6 svbcristatus (Gray). This species, wi-ites Mr. Darwin, " dilierently from the last, is contined to the central islands of the Archipelago, namely, to Albemarle, James, Bariington, and Indefatigable. To the southward, iu Charles, Hood, and Chatham Islands, and to the northward, in Towers, Bindloes, and Abingdon, I neither saw nor heard of any. It would appear as if this species had been created in the centre of the Archipelago, and thence had been dispersed only to a certain distance. In the central islands they inhabit both the higher and damp, as well as the lower and sterile parts; but in the latter they are much the most numerous. I cannot give a more forcible proof of their numbers than by stating that when we were left at James Island we could not for some time find a spot free from their burrows on which to pitch our tent. Tiiese Lizards, like their brothers, the sea kind, are ugly animals, and are a little ; The second division of the family of Iguanidse relates to those Is:uan;vlik(» cif^ituiv-s wiiich have. RHYNCHVS acrodont teeth, that is to say, the teeth are placed with their bases on the top of the jaw-bones without sockets. They are neai'ly all-inhabitants of the Eastern hemisphere and of Australia. One of the most interesting is a little i-epresentation of the Dragon of the mediaeval Eastern imagination. There are many species of these " Dragons," * but they are restricted to the East Indies, and they are more numerous in the Archipelago than in the Continent. They have not yet been found in Ceylon. The character, according to Giinther, by which the Flying Lizards may be at once recognised, is the peculiar additional apparatus for locomotion, formed by the prolonged five or six hind ribs, which are connected by a fold of extensible s
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