The _Cameleon_ is an oviparous Animal. _J. Jonstonus_ says, it has above a hundred Eggs, from _Piereskius_, who nursed a Female on purpose to make Observations upon the Subject[213]. After all the Gentleman’s Care about ’em at _Smyrna_, all of them died within five Months; and having opened the Female, found thirty Eggs in her, fasten’d one to another in the form of a Chain. _Ibid. supra._ Footnote 213: _Jonstonus de Animalib. inter Quadrupedes_, p. 141. The _Atlas_[214] calls the _Cameleon_, the _Indian Salamander_[215]; that goes there by the Name of _Gekho_, from the Noise it makes after hissing, and is thus describ’d, _viz._ ’tis about a Foot long and spotted, has large Eyes starting out, the Tail has several white Rings round it, and its Teeth sharp, and strong enough to penetrate an Armour of Steel: it has a slow Motion, but where it fastens, ’tis not easily disengaged. This Creature is found in _Arabia_, _Egypt_, _Madagascar_, _Java_, and other parts of _India_. _Bellonius_ saw several of them among the Shrubs of _Attica_[216]: He says it frequents _Cairo_, and other Places, is found among Hedges and Bushes; mutes like a Hawk; swallows every thing whole. It moves the Feet of each side alternately, but runs up Trees very fast, and lays hold on the Boughs with its Tail. _Leo_ and _Sandys_ say, the Neck is inflexible, and it can’t turn without moving its whole Body: the Back is crooked, the Skin is spotted with little Tumours: the Tail long and slender, like that of a Rat, when it sucks in the Air, its Belly swells, whence some think that the Air is part of its Food. One Author says, it subsists only upon Air; another says, ’tis a vulgar Error.—— Footnote 214: _Africa._ Footnote 215: For _America_. Footnote 216: _Jonstonus de Quadrupedibus._ ’Tis said, that if a Serpent lurks near the Tree, where it sits, it throws a Thread out of its Mouth, with a little shining Drop at the end, which falls upon the Serpent’s Head, and kills it[217]. Footnote 217: _Atl. Afric._ p. 49, 50. In _America_ are Serpents, some of whom are so poisonous, that if touch’d but with a little Stick, the Venom runs up the Hand; and such as are touch’d with the Blood of dead Serpents, die a lingering Death: This is Tradition: I shall begin with the first of them, _viz._ XXX. _KUKURUKI_, a Serpent of _Brasil_ in _South-America_, which is under the torrid Zone, where their Winter begins in _March_ and ends in _August_; and is like our Summer. This Serpent is of an ash Colour, and in its Scales resembles the _Bocinga_, or Rattle-Snake, but is more gross; on the Back, variegated with yellow, and large black Spots. ’Tis represented as a very venemous Animal, eight or nine Foot long[218]; and when prepared, the Inhabitants feed upon it. Footnote 218: _9 & interdum 12 pedes longus est._ Ray.