Chameleon
the animal known to naturalists as Chamæleon africanus. Owing to the rete mucosum containing two kinds of coloring matter, the animal fre quently changes color to the eye of the observer, a property which has rendered it an object of curiosity in all ages. It CHAMELEON The was anciently fabled to live on air. It has but five cervical vertebræ. hind as well as fore toes are five; trunk mounted high on the legs, forming an exception to the majority of reptiles; lungs very large; tongue cylindrical, extensile, and retractile, terminating in a dilated and tubular tip covered with a glutinous secretion, by means of which the animal catches its food of insects, flies, etc. Reproduction is by means of eggs.