Show REPTILES AT HOME IN SAND Naturalist Makes Interesting Report ot of Habits of Small Dwellers of the Desert Quaint and curious are the tile wn ways s s of o some reptiles of the desert as revealed by the famous naturalist C. C I. I L. L Camp who vho has been studying them In tho the Colorado desert He Jells tells of fm some reptiles reptiles rep rep- m tiles s the burrowing s snake k s sonora r th the tailed gridiron-tailed lizard the sand lizard lizard and the desert horned homed toad which actually swim into the loose sand by the strong lateral move mo movements ments of their heads The gridiron tailed lizard Is very swift and agile and when chased will race over the sand at at fifteen miles an hour Most 1 of the desert reptiles of Colorado are colored colored colored col col- col- col ored like their surroundings and are aie difficult to detect Others can change their colors to suit their surroundings while not a n few v of the desert lizards are able to part with their tails very readily when they are seized sei There Is humor In the ways of ot desert tortoises When one meets another unless both are males when a fight Invariably takes place each nods Its head rapidly up and down as though in salutation t and sometimes noses are touched as us as they pass |