Show LIZARDS THAT LIKE MUSIC t Tuataras of New Zealand Very Fond of Rollicking Choruses A curious fact has lately been learned learn-ed about the tuatara tho large native lizard of New Zealand It Is a great fat sleepy thing from a foot upward In length with n measurement meas-urement around it of about twelve inches It Is kept tamed about rocks Wild specimens are growing rare though one Island off the coast still swarms with them These harmless things come out asa as-a rule only for food But somo one In Christ church has discovered a way of bringing them out at any time This Is by singing to them They havo preferences In music too Thoy evince much moro satisfaction at a rollicking chorus than at a solo Ono day a song sung by a girl brought somo out but only their heads wero visible their sleepy eyes opening open-Ing every few minutes Then the charmer tried Soldiers of tho Queen and when all joined in tho chorus there was no doubt about tho effect on tho tuataras They wriggled about on tho rocks almost dancing in their excitement and joy until tho repertoire ct the singers was exhausted when lime lIz nrds sneaked back again to their homo among tho rocks Now Zealand Is tho only place In the world whero these groat llznraa are found and they arc said by biologists biolo-gists to bo out of their place In this stage of tho worlds history They bo lorff to tho coal period and like tho moo ought by natural laws to havo beromo extinct long agoNow York Sun t h 1 |