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CHELONIA IMBRICAT A.— Liiimeus. 

 Plate VII. 



Characters. Head elongated, narrow; snout prolonged; jaws without serrae, 

 both hooked; shell oval; slightly carinate, subcordiform, concave in front, flattened 

 and serrated behind, and covered with thirteen vertebral and lateral plates, remark- 

 ably imbricated; two nails to each extremity. 



SrNONYMES. La Tortue caret, Dutert, Hist, des Ant, torn. ii. p. 229. 

 Hawksbill Turtle, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 39, tab. xxxix. 

 Hawksbill Turtle, Brown, Hist. Jam., p. 463. 

 Testudo imbricata, Lin., Sj'st. Nat., torn. i. p. 350. 

 Le caret, Lacip. Hist, des Quad. Ovip., torn. i. p. 105, tab. ii. 

 Testudo imbricata, Gmel., ed. Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i., p. 3. 

 Testudo imbricata, Schoepff, Hist. Test., p. 85, tab. xviii. 

 Testudo imbricata, Latr., Hist. Kept, tom. i. p. 50. 

 Testudo imbricata, Daud., Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 39. 

 Testudo imbricata, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. p. 89, pi. xxvi. xxvii. 

 Caretta imbricata, Merrem., Versuch eines, Syst. der Amph., p. 19. 

 Chelonia imbricata, Schwclg., Prod. Arch., Konigsb., vol. i. p 291 and 408. 

 Chelonia imbricata. Gray, Synop. Rept, p. 52. 



Chelonia imbricata, Dum. et Bih., Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 417. 

 Chelonia imbricata, Coctcau, Hist. d'Isle de Cuba, par Ramon de Lasagra, p. 28. 

 Hawksbill Turtle, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is depressed, oval or subcordiform, almost ecarinate, 

 slightly concave in front and over the shoulders, flattened narrow and serrated be- 

 hind, and covered with thirteen plates, imbricated like tiles on the roof of a house. 

 Of these plates the first vertebral is irregularly he.xagonal, larger in front and 

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