Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 75
THE GREEN LIZARD 47 The color of this Lizard is very beautiful, rendering it one of the most lovely of its a) r es . . . : . ia “2p . tribe. The ground color of the body is bright, glittering green, as if covered with an armor of emeralds, upon which are set, along the sides, some rather large,… … azure. A kind of network of black is also spread over the body, sometimes running in well-defined lines, and sometimes composed of rows of black dots. The temples of the Eyed Lizard are covered with unequal, many-sided scales, rather convex in their form. Its length when full grown is about fifteen…
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