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flying dragon

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flying dragon

Lizard Draco volans of the family Agamidae. It lives in southeast Asia, and can glide on flaps of skin spread and supported by its ribs. This small (7.5 cm/3 in head and body) arboreal lizard can glide between trees for 6 m/20 ft or more.


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They pointed out the fish and dead birds lying about among the rocks as proving the nature of the food of these creatures, and I heard them congratulating each other on having cleared up the point why the bones of this flying dragon are found in such great numbers in certain well-defined areas, as in the Cambridge Green-sand, since it was now seen that, like penguins, they lived in gregarious fashion.
A carved bird or beast at a corner seemed like some vast walking or flying dragon wasting the pastures and villages below.
Did I have it carried away by seven flying dragons, or was it merely a trifling matter of turning it into a milk-white hind?
 
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