Butiki

It's been a long time since I had to admit that I was ignorant of the scientific names for these house lizards found in the Philippines. I have to agree that these are geckos if it weren't for the information that the Lizards of Tanay have posted online and the other sources. Here are the online keywords for your search: little geckos in the house, butiki, tanay.  Exploring to be a herpetologist is one big task, but I am not really interested in all of it except for the little house lizards in the Philippines as well as in West Africa. They [referring to the latter] are quite as big as the "tuko", but they did not make a "tuko" sound, just clinging to screened windows waiting for insects, and they were colorful.