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DRAGONS, FABLED AND REAL.
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Fig. 3.-The Chlamydosaurus. (From a specimen in the Reptile Menagerie in the Museum of Natural History in Paris.)

leaps. It is essentially a tree-inhabiting animal, though it can run very swiftly along the ground. According to Captain Grey, who observed it in nature, "when not provoked or disturbed it moves quietly about, with its frill lying back in plaits upon the