. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . d, and the females are green. The flesh of these may be considered as the greatest delicacy of Afri:aand South America; and the sportsmen of those climates go out to hunt theiguana, as we do in pursuit of the pheasant or the hare. In the beginningof the season, when the great floods of the tropical climates are passed away,and vegetation starts into universal verdure, the sportsmen are seen, with anoose and a stick, wandering along the sides of the rivers, to ta
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . d, and the females are green. The flesh of these may be considered as the greatest delicacy of Afri:aand South America; and the sportsmen of those climates go out to hunt theiguana, as we do in pursuit of the pheasant or the hare. In the beginningof the season, when the great floods of the tropical climates are passed away,and vegetation starts into universal verdure, the sportsmen are seen, with anoose and a stick, wandering along the sides of the rivers, to take theiguana. This animal, though apparently formed for combat, is the mostharmless creature of all the forest. - Iguana vulgaris, Lin. The genus Iguana has the body and tail covered with smallimbricated scales; a row of spines, or impressed and pointed scales along the back;throat with a pendent and inflated skin, compressed laterally; femoral pores; headplated ; a row of compressed triangular and serrated teeth around the jaws, and two littlerows on the posterior margin of the palate. REPTILIA— CHAMELEON,1 «99. Like the crocodile, this little animal proceeds from an egg; and it also nearlyresembles that formidable creature in form. It is found in all the warmcountries, both of the old and the new world. The head of a large chameleon is almost two inches long; and thence tothe beginning of the tail, four and a half; the tail is five inches long, andthe feet two and a half; the thickness of the body is different at differenttimes; for sometimes, from the back to the belly it is two inches, andsometimes but one ; for it can blow itself up, and contract itself at swelling and contraction is not only of the back and belly, but ot toe legs and tail. , The chameleon has the power of driving the air it breathes, over every part of the body; however, it only gets between the skin and the muscles; for the muscles themselves are never swollen. The skin is v
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