. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. . GILA M0NSTEB [Helode RANDOM NOTES ON LIZARDS. Specially written for Animal Life by Dr. E. W. Shupeldt (of New York), , etc. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author. THE fact that almost every large city contains a number of shops which sell living animals, either to private individuals as pets or to zoological gardens for their collections, shows that the interest in animal life is very general. It is to these shops that naturalists are often indebted for being able to study and photograph living specimens of an
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. . GILA M0NSTEB [Helode RANDOM NOTES ON LIZARDS. Specially written for Animal Life by Dr. E. W. Shupeldt (of New York), , etc. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author. THE fact that almost every large city contains a number of shops which sell living animals, either to private individuals as pets or to zoological gardens for their collections, shows that the interest in animal life is very general. It is to these shops that naturalists are often indebted for being able to study and photograph living specimens of animals which otherwise they might have no opportunity of observing. Three of the lizards illustrating these notes came to me in this way. The species to which I refer are, first, one of the three forms of lizards occurring on the Canary Islands and known scientifically as Lacerta callotis; second, an unusually fine specimen of Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami) from Australia, nearly ten inches in length; and lastly, two large specimens of the common Stellion Lizard (Agama stellio) found in Syria, where these were captured. It is very seldom indeed that any "of these lizards are seen alive in America, so it was with an unusual interest that I made their photographs and studied them. My other reproductions of photographs from life herein shown are also some of my own studies, and they represent lizards found in the United States, viz., the Common Alligator Lizard, or as it is sometimes called, the Fence Lizard, or, less frequently, the Swift, and the far-famed Gila Monster or Heloderma, a reptile of which I have had a very considerable experience. The picture I have selected from my collection to represent this lizard here is a direct dorsal view from above of a large specimen (over 20 inches long) that I had alive for nearly a year. It makes an unusual and interesting illustration from the fact that this famous lizard is more commonly photographed from a lateral point
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