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Show The tail is long, slender and very snaky in appearance. A large donble pouch extending bolow the head adds to the ferocious aspect of tho little rainbow colored brute. The wings are not true wings, strictly so called, but are used merely as parachutes. When the lizard leaps from the limb of a tree into the air tho upper current brings them out, and enables the possessor to soar away at an angle to a greater or lesser distance, according ac-cording to the height of the starting point. Tho lizard can change its direction while in the air, a power not iiossessed by our "flying squirrels." Hence the casual observer might readily believe that they had tho power of moving the winglike appendages, which would, in that case, be true flight. Soaring is, however, the limit of their power, the height of the starting point regulating the distance traveled in the soaring flight, which is qnite frequently several hundred yards, an aerial exhibition which strikes terror to the heart of a stranger wandering for the first time in the jungles of the antipodean wilds. St. Louis Republic. One of the" strangest of the many stran-e creatures that inhabit the wilds ff southern Asiaand India is the-fly.ng flowers." a small, brilhanthued lizard of , the order bracovolans. On the wing , tooovolans resembles a richly tinted m-S m-S when at rast it compares favorably j Sh others of the lizard tnbwitb the ( Exception that it has an "tordinary . protuberance on both sides of the body. Care the wings, which are formed, JyTcutaneous flap, winglike m shape a eeri3S of false nbs. In I Xht K rds are bine and Jt, with intermediate tints of various j kinds and shades. |