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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE "FLYING-DRAGON" GROUP. HE remarkable little lizard shown in the group illus- trated on this page, the so-called Flying Dragon (Draco volans Gray), takes its name from the numerous wing-like membranous expansions of its sides, which act like aeroplanes as the animal jumps or floats from branch to branch of the trees in which it dwells. These
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THE FLYING-DRAGON GROUP In East M;uimi:il H:ill. Xo. 207 of the iiiiiiii lloor folds of skin are supported l)y the five or si.x posterior pairs of ribs and may be folded like fans. On the throat of the male are three ))ointed orange-colored a))pendages, of which the middle is the longer. In the female the.se appendages aic blue. Tlu' metallic sheen of the body and the prettily marked orange and black wings of the animal harmonize perfectly with the surrounding foliage and the gaudily coloretl flowers among which it rests, and aid in concealing it from its enemies as well

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  • bookid:americanmuseumjo07amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:158
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