Hardwicke's science-gossip - an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature (1886) (14769115892)

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Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature

Year: 1886 (1880s)

Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895

Subjects: Science Natural history

Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke

Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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same length or perfection as the original one ;naturally it will grow if the lizard is young and grow-ing, but I doubt if it will do so in an adult specimen. M 2 244 HA RD WICKES SCIENCE- G CSSIP. For nine long months, how anxiously I watchedthe amputated tail of one of my full-grown pets, inthe illusory hope of seeing it gradually elongate, onlyto be disappointed. My pet Tommys pride andbeauty had departed, and for ever. My father being intent on effecting the capture(with safety to tail and limb) of the unexpected prize,which chance, as we erroneously say, offered him, second year of his captivity, at the end of which timehe stopped short by half-an-inch of the averagelength of the Z. vivifara—six inches. His caudalappendage, which was longer than his body, taperedoff to the finest point; the colour of the upper part ofhis body was olive-brown, which, in the sun, had ametallic-green hue, and sometimes was even iridescent,with a dark brown and interrupted line down the X ^0 \1^V HH

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Fig. 153.—Group of Lizards, a, Viviparous Lizard; b, Sand Lizard; c, Elind Worm. held a dustpan before the little Saurian into which heran, and then placed a soft long-haired brush overhim, and in this way he was conveyed triumphantlyinto the house. Strangely beautiful was our littlecaptive, and I found on enquiry that he was a youngmale specimen of one of our two true British lizards, thecommon little brown lizard (Zootoca viznpara) measur-ing about four inches. He grew during the first and middle of his back, and a broad longitudinal banddown each side, between which and the middle linewere black dashes and ocellated spots; in somespecimens of this lizard the spots are pale orange.The under part was of a fine orange, spotted withblack ; if a female, it would have been pale olive-grey. The colour and markings of this lizard aresubject to variations. There was quite an appreciable HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. !45 difference, (in colour especially) between the severalspecimens that I h

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