Some of these lizards inhabit the high and damp parts of the islands, but they are much more numerous in the lower and sterile districts near the coast.

I cannot give a more forcible proof of their numbers, than by stating that when we were left at James Island, we could not for some time find a spot free from their burrows on which to pitch our single tent.

Like their brothers the sea-kind, they are ugly animals, of a yellowish orange beneath, and of a brownish-red colour above: from their low facial angle they have a singularly stupid appearance.
They are, perhaps, of a rather less size than the marine species; but several of them weighed between ten and fifteen pounds.

In their movements they are lazy and half torpid.

When not frightened, they slowly crawl along with their tails and bellies dragging on the ground.