PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Third Series 

 Zoology Vol. IV, No. 3 



Issued Decetnber 2^ igo^ 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE LEATHER-BACK 



TURTLE, DERMOCHELYS, ON THE 



COAST OF CALIFORNIA 



BY JOHN VAN DENBURGH 



Curator of the Department of Herpetology 



Plates IX-XI 



Records of the occurrence of the great marine Leather- 

 back Turtle in the Pacific Ocean are so few that any addi- 

 tional obsei-vations are of much interest. Temminck and 

 Schlegel^ report upon a specimen captured near the Bay of 

 Nagasaki, Japan, in May, 1825. Mr. Swinhoe^ saw a large 

 one at Amoy, China, in October, 1859. Aflalo"' has described 



1 Fauna Japonica, 1833, pp. 9, 12. 



2 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 410. 



3 Sketch Nat. Hist. Australia, p. 188. 



November 29, 1905. 



