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the name it now bears, which has been very generally received by naturalists. 

 In fact, the very specimen from which Daudin took his description is still preserved 

 in the Garden of Plants at Paris.* I have no hesitation in putting the Emys 

 reticulata of Say among the synonymes of this animal, although Leconte, Dumeril 

 and Bibron suppose it to refer to the Emys concinna. The very description of 

 Say is sufficient to show the animal he meant: " shell ovate, posterior marginal 

 plates entire, lateral ones beneath with three black spots over the suture; sternum 

 very narrow, elongate and oval."t Furthermore, he says4 the only specimen he 

 ever saw was in the Philadelphia Museum, and that it corresponds well with the 

 figure of Daudin. Besides this, Mr. Peale, the proprietor of the Philadelphia 

 Museum, showed me the identical specimen from which Say took his description, 

 on which was marked in his own hand-writing, Emys reticulata. 



* Leconte, Ann. Lye. Hist. Nat. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 108. 

 t Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. iv. p. 204. 

 X Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. iv. p. 109. 



