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¶ Of the shag-haired and bearded Stagge like to a Goat: as also of the Chameleon. [unspec M]
OF the same kind is the Goat hart, and differing only in the beard and long shag about the shoulders, which they call Tragelaphis: and this breedeth no where but about the riuer Phasis. Africke in a manner is the onely countrey that breedeth no stags and hinds: but
contrariwise, it bringeth Chamaeleons, although India hath them ordinarily in greater num∣ber. [unspec A] In shape and quantitie it is made like a Lisard, but that it standeth higher and streighter than the Lisards do, vpon his legs. The sides, flank, and belly, meet together, as in fishes: it hath likewise sharp prickles, bearing out vpon the back as they haue: snouted it is, for the bignesse not vnlike to a swine, with a very long taile thin and pointed at the end, winding round and en∣tangled like to vipers: hooked clawes it hath, and goeth slow, as doth the Tortoise: his body and skin is rough and scaly, as the crocodiles: his eies standing hollow within his head, & those be exceeding great, one neere vnto the other, with a very small portion betweene, of the same colour that the rest of the body is: he is alwaies open eied, and neuer closeth them: he looketh about him not by mouing the ball of his eie, but by turning the whole body thereof: he gapes euermore aloft into the aire, and is the onely creature aliue that feedeth neither of meat nor [unspec B] drinke, but hath his nourishment of aire onely: about wilde fig-trees he is fell and dangerous, otherwise harmlesse. But his colour naturally is very strange and wonderful, for euer and anon he changeth it, as well in his eie, as taile and whole body besides: and looke what colour he tou∣cheth next, the same alwaies he resembleth, vnlesse it be red and white. When he is dead, hee looketh pale and wan: very little flesh he hath in head and chawes, and about the ioint where his taile is graffed to his rump; but in all the body besides, none at all. All his bloud is in his heart, and about his eies: among other his bowels, he is without a spleen. Hidden hee lieth all winter long, as Lisards do.