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Identifier: naturalhistory07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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HE remarkable little lizard shown in the group illus-trated on this page, the so-called Flying Dragon (Dracovolans Gray), takes its name from the numerouswing-like membranous expansions of its sides, whichact like aeroplanes as the animal jumps or floats frombranch to branch of the trees in which it dwells. These
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THE FLYING-DRAGON GROUP In East Mamma) Hall, No. 207 of the main floor folds of skin are supported by the five or six posterior pairs of ribs andmay be folded like fans. ()n the throat of the male are three pointedorange-colored appendages, of which the middle is the longer. In thefemale these appendages are blue. The metallic sheen of the body andthe prettily marked orange and black wings of the animal harmonizeperfectly with the surrounding foliage and the gaudily colored flowersamong which it rests, and aid in concealing it from its enemies as well NEWS NOTES 139 as from the insects for which it lies in wait. About twenty species ofthese Flying Dragons are widely distributed throughout the Indo-Malayan countries, though on account of their retiring habits they arenowhere considered common. The six specimens in this group were collected in the Island of Nias,off Sumatra. The tree on which they perch is the Nutmeg (Myristicafragrans); the orchid is the beautiful Phalamopsis schilleri

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  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:Robarts___University_of_Toronto
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  • bookleafnumber:157
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