The figure of a Chameleon.

(Book 25, Chapter 22, p. 1024)

FRICA produceth the Chameleon, yet is it more frequent in India: he is in shape and greatnesse like a Lizard, but that his legs are straight, and higher, his sides are joyned to the belly as in fish, & his backe stands up after the same manner, his nose stands out not much unlike a swines, his taile is long, and endeth sharpe, and hee foulds it up in a round, like a serpent, his nailes are crooked, his pace slow like as the Tortoise, his body rough, hee never shuts his eyes, neither doth hee looke about by the moving of the apple, but by the turning of the whole eye. The nature of his colour is very wonderfull, for he changeth it now and then in his eyes and taile, and whole body beside; and hee alwaies assimulates that which he is next to, unlesse it be red or white. His skin is very thinne, and his body cleare; therefore the one of these two, either the colour of the neighbouring things in so great subtlety of his cleare skinne, easily shines as in a glasse; or else various humors diversly stirred up in him, according to the variety of his affections, represent divers colours in his skinne, as a Turky-cocke doth in those fleshy excrescences under his throat, and upon his head: hee is pale when he is dead. Mathiolus writes that the right eye taken from a living Chameleon takes away the white spots which are upon the horny coat of the eye; his body being beaten, and mixed with Goats milke, and rubbed upon any part, fetcheth off haires; his gall discusseth [i.e., dispels] the Cataracts of the eye.