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Rh which was kept in a hot-house near Bristol. It had refused to eat insects and other kinds of animal food, until happening to be near some kidney-bean plants, it began to eat their leaves, and was thenceforward supplied with these plants. Other accounts, as we shall presently see, describe them in their native regions as feeding on fruits.

Some writers have enumerated many species of this genus, but the eminent herpetologists above mentioned reduce the whole to three, all of which are widely spread over South America and the

Antilles. The most common is Iguana tuberculata, which, in five stages of its life, has