Crossword-Solution: SKINKS 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Daddy Chip takes care of Doctor Dell--I guess she'd cry if she couldn't find the bunch and had to make dry-camp and skinks come around--but I never.” “Of course you never!” Miss Allen agreed emphatically, trying not to look conscious of any tear-marks on the Kid's sunburned cheeks.

There are forty-five different articles used, each to be prepared by slow degrees and introduced with great care; some of them (such as the rape of storax, camel's hay, and bellies of skinks) must have been inconvenient to procure in New England.

The peculiarity of the indigenous animals of New Zealand is seen not only in the absence of mammals and the abundance of remarkable birds, many of them flightless, but also in the fact that there are no snakes in this vast area--no crocodiles, no tortoises--only fourteen small kinds of lizard (seven Geckoes and seven Skinks), and only one species of frog (and that only ever seen by a very few persons)! There were fish in the rivers when settlers arrived there, but none very remarkable.

The next are skinks (Scincidæ), small ground-lizards with a wide distribution in the Eastern hemisphere.

Five-lined skinks living on the same area were likewise found to be scarred by bites which I identified (Fitch, 1954: 133) as bites of the short-tailed shrew.