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THE following may perhaps be of some interest in connection with the letter of Prof. Th. Eimer (vol. xxvi. p. 29). One evening as I sat in the verandah of my house in Madras, my attention was called by a peculiar cry, and on looking up I saw that it was being made by a small lizard, apparently in a state of great terror at a snake which was uncoiling itself from the rafters close to it. I cannot say what the species of the lizard was, but it was one of those so abundant on the walls of Indian houses; it was one of two that appeared every evening, when the lamp was brought out into the verandah, and feasted on the moths attracted by the light.
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SMITH, C. The Existence of a Voice in Lizards. Nature 26, 81–82 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026081f0
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