LIZARDS.
Photo by E. C. Atkinson.
BLIND-WORM.
Notwithstanding its name, the blind-worm possesses small, very bright little eyes.
The Lizard Tribe or Sub-order is notable as containing a greater number of specific forms than any other of the Reptilian groups, no less than 1,700 distinct species being described in the most recently published catalogues. While formerly regarded as constituting a separate and independent order of the Reptile Class, later investigations have demonstrated that lizards are so intimately related through sundry intermediate types with the Snakes that they cannot be recognised as constituting other than a sub-section of the same order. The two groups of the Lizards and Snakes are consequently, and with reference more particularly to their commonly shared scaly armatures, technically distinguished by the appellation of Scaled Reptiles.
Photo by W. Saville-Kent, F.Z.S.] [Milford-on-Sea.
GLASS-SNAKE, OR SCHELTOPUSIK.
The presence of movable eyelids distinguishes this legless lizard from the true snakes.