From this circumstance it seems probable that the breeding season had not then commenced.

I asked several of the inhabitants if they knew where it laid its eggs: they said that they knew nothing of its propagation, although well acquainted with the eggs of the land kind--a fact, considering how very common this lizard is, not a little extraordinary.
We will now turn to the terrestrial species (A.Demarlii), with a round tail, and toes without webs.

This lizard, instead of being found like the other on all the islands, is confined to the central part of the archipelago, namely to Albemarle, James, Barrington, and Indefatigable islands.

To the southward, in Charles, Hood, and Chatham Islands, and to the northward, in Towers, Bindloes, and Abingdon, I neither saw nor heard of any.

It would appear as if it had been created in the centre of the archipelago, and thence had been dispersed only to a certain distance.