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As the peculiarities of this genus have already been traced at some length in our account of the Family which it alone constitutes, we need not recapitulate them, but shall confine ourselves to some particulars of the history of the best known species, and an examination of some interesting phenomena, which are displayed by the whole tribe.

The Common Chameleon (Chamæleon vulgaris, .) is about ten inches in length; the occiput is arched and compressed. It is distinguished