tiles


Note:  Do not rely on this information. It is very old.

Skink

Skink, a popular name for Scincus officinalis, an African lizard from six to eight inches long, reddish-dun in colour, marked with transverse dark bands. The name is also used for any member of the family Scincidae, in some of which the limbs are rudimentary, and in others altogether absent.