The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature

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LACERTA VAR I A.

CHARACTER GENERIC US. Corpus tetrapodum, Caudatum, nudUm. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, LACERTA cauda longa carinata, Corpore macu lis transversis variiS. Tam prope accedit haec lacerta ad illius similitudinem quam Linnarus nomine Monitoris descripsit, ut dubium forsan sit an species vere sit distincta, seu illius tantum

varietas. Corpus Uncias circiter quindecim longum est, caudaque multo longior. Color niger est, notis, striisque favis, imparibus, per corpus transverse discurrentibus. Super crura sunt series transverta macularum rotundarum, caudaque fasciis latis nigris flavisque alternatim interstinguitur. In nonnullis speciminibus color flavus pallidior multo est quam in aliis, et fere albescens. Plurima hujus lacertae specimina novissimis a Nova Hollandia navigiis in Angliam illata sunt.

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UARIEGAT ED LIZAR D.

versely variegated. This Ligard approaches so extremely near to the Lacerta Monitor of Linnarus, or Monitory LiZard, asto make it doubiit whether it be not in reality a varietyos that species. The body is about fifteen inches in tength, and the tali is considerably longer. The animalis of a black colour, variegated with yelloK marks and streaks of different mapes, and running in a transverse direction. On the legs are rows of transverse round spois; and on the tali broad alternate bars of blach and yelloK. In sonae specimens the yellow is much pater than in others, and nearly White. Severat specimens of this species were brought from New Holland during the late voyage frona Botany Bay.

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ARACTER GENERICUS. Macula prope oculos nuda, papillos a. Lin. 8s. t. p. 273 ARACTER SPECIFICUS, M.

TETRAO VIOLACEO- NIGRICANS, viridi

suffusus, alis fusco - ferrugineis, crista compresso-erecta ferrugineo- rubente.

Son. VOP. Ind. VOl. 2. p. 174. pl. 1OO. GenUS Tetrao numerosum varias species complectitur quae nominibus perdicum, Urogalloriam, cotUrnictim, B C. Communiter Vocantur ; pertinetque ad divisionem gallinaceam, quae scilicet continet omnes illas aVes quae forma vivendique modo ad gallum gallinaceum plus minus accedunt. TetraonUm plures exotici sunt; maX- ima pars eXtra Europam nutritur. Species de qua jam loquimur, Ut sileamus inusitatum colorem, generis sui est rarissima. Notandum praeterea est characteres illi esse incertos; Ut ad genus Columbae non minus qUam Tetraonis pertinere videatur; praesertim si specimen eX- siccatum inspicias. Figura haec nostra ab ipsa ave viva

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margo nempe Crenis parvulis ruberrimis et exstantibus ornatus. Crista quoque mollissima et quasi serica. Peninsulam Malaccam, variasque Indiae Orientalis insulas inhabitat Tetrao Porphyrio. Observandum est in aliquibus speciminibus, maribus fortasse, exstare in basi frontis setas aliquot nigras, quae in hoc specimine defuere. Notandum quoque est hanc avem, quamvis in genere adeo diverso, in multis similem esse Cuculo Persae Linnaei.