Identifier: museumofnaturalh31869rich (find matches)
Title: The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890 Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886 Baird, William, 1803-1872 White, Adam, 1817-1879 Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner. DSI Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London Glasgow Edinburgh : William MacKenzie
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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gamida) contains a con-siderable number of species, upwards of eighty havingbeen described by Dr. Gray in his Catalogue. Theseare distributed through a variety of genera, which aredistinguislied by the teeth being implanted into thesubstance of the jaw, adhering intimately to it by tlieirfings. In none of them is the palate armed with teeth.The thumb of the hind feet is on the same plane as theother toes. These characters separate them distinctlyfrom the Iguanid®, and, moreover, they are all inhabi-tants of the Old World, with the exception of two orthree from Australia, whereas the Iguanidae are allnatives of the New World. In other respects theyresemble the latter family very much, and by manywriters on reptiles are made merely a subdivision ofthem. Like them also they may be arranged in twogror.ps—those which chiefly live upon trees ; and thosewhose habits are terrestrial. Amongst the members of the first group, or thosewhich live on trees, are the harmless little Flvinq Fid. 9.
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Tapayaxin of Mexico (Phrjnosoma orbtcularp). Lizards or Dragons. To no word, perhap.s, areattaclied ideas more extraordinary, and of greater anti-quity than to that of Dragon. In all ages and in allcountries the name Draco has been one of fear andmystery, and has not been dropped by modern natural-ists, who, however, instead of giving it to a creature ofromance, have conferred it upon a real, substantial,wmijnl reptile. The genus Draco contains severalupecies, which are small and inollensive, but which,nevertheless, are still equally curious in the eyes of anattentive observer. Their chief character is, in fact,one of the most beautiful examples of the resources, atonce simple and varied, that Nature uses in order toarrive at her ends. Destined to live on trees, it wasnecessary that the Dragons, in order to move them- selves with an agility equal to that of the other animalsof the tribe to which they belong, should have their feetfurnished with toes possessing free claws; but as tliei

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