Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/449

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B? ?011N uDWAR? GRAY, ,Fdq., M. qk& Genus ClFLAMYDOSAURUS. G,?y. Pedi&u? qu?tuor. ?u?l elonf?A, subcylindrici. Animal scaly; the he?d depressed; the .nost. rils p}aeed on the side, midway between the eyes and the end of the head; the drum of the ear naked ;. the front teeth conical, �awl-shaped (eight in the upper, and four in the lower jaw); the hinder ones ]ar.?est; the side or cheek teeth compressed, short, forming a single. ridge,. ?edu?ly. lourer behind; tonKue short, fieshy, with an oval smooth disk at each side of the lower l:mrt of its front part; neck rather long; furnished on each side with a large plalted frill, supported'above by a crescent-shaped cartilage arisin? from the upper hinder l)art of the ear, and, in the middle, by an elonl?tion of the sl.de fork of the bone of.the tongue; body 'compressed; le?s rather long, especially the hinder ones; destitute of fernoral pores; feet four, with five' toes, the first having two, the second three, the third four, the fourth five, and the little ?n?r and toe three joints; claws compressed, hooked; tail long, nearly round, scaly. 'fhis i?enus appears to be nearly allied to the ,?g?e, but differs from them in the peculiar frill that is appended to the neck. o,g,,,zed by Goog|�