THE LIZARD'S LOVE OF MUSIC.
[To 1HZ EDIT0126 OF THE " 5FROTA.TO11."1 SIR,—With reference to your interesting article on "Animal lEsthetics," I should like to give you one of ray own ex- periences. When in Switzerland two years ago, I made the acquaintance of some lizards, living in the crevices of one of the sunny walls of our garden. As I had somewhere heard that lizards have a good ear for music, I resolved to prove the fact ; so one afternoon, armed with a small musical-box, I wended my steps to their tomato-covered home. Before I had finished the first tune, a considerable audience had col- lected,---an audience it was a pleasure to play to, for the lizards were far more attentive than most human beings. Out peered head after head, a little on one side, in a listening attitude. I gave my little friends a musical entertainment (varied by whistling) nearly every day, and before long they got much holder, and would venture right out of their holes, and lie motionless on the broad ledge of the wall, their bright black eyes half-closed as a rule, but opening now and then to give me a lazy wink of enjoyment —I am, Sir, &es
L. I. A.
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