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Excerpt from Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Vol. 6: Numbers 129 152; 1923-24 It was sluggish and deliberate in its movements, and when angered it reared upright, attened its body vertically, and bent down its head. Its mouth meanwhile was Opened widely in a way that recalled at once captive and angry African Chamaeleons. That the very peculiar superficial similarity of appearance should be accompanied by such similar sluggish movements and curious attitudes is most noteworthy and almost incredible when the protean zoologic gap between the two genera is considered. In a few places where the forest roof leaked spots of sun light the ground did dry out and the great, curly, new-fallen leaves made noisy walking. In these little dried out spaces we found some tiny lizards. They crept swiftly and stealthily over the big dead leaves, and when the sun was hidden, as it often was because of the frequent showers, these little lizards hid at once, to reappear when their mouldy abode became dry again. They were not easy to catch, and when one was finally in the fingers a decent specimen was by no means assured. For their skin tore like wet tissue paper and their struggles usually left them sadly unfrocked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."