A short time ago, Mr Hiram Anderson, of the Dominion Hotel, Guelph, Canada, bought a water melon m the market. He tells a " Herald" reporter that on cutting it open he found to his astonishment a perfect specimen of the brown lizard embedded m the front end of the melon ; that the intruder was about six inches long, and that the specimen was handed to Mr Gibbs, who states that the young animal must have crept into the flower for shelter shortly after being hatched from the egg, and entering the nectary of the flower, remained there, becoming fully developed with the growth of the fruit ; and that it had probably lived m the fruit for about two or three months, deriving support by suction, until killed by the hardening of the rind and the consequent exclusion of air.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 30, 31 January 1877, Page 3
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