Zoology.] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. \_RepliUa. 



scales when very young, some flat and polygonal, and some convex 

 and circular. The head and paddles also lose the scales when 

 adult. 



Of all living Chelonians the Luth is the largest, some recorded 

 being 9 feet long ; our specimen, from its size and the distinct 

 tuberculation of the dorsal ridges, is only half grown ; but there 

 are no traces of the line ridges on the sternum said to be found in 

 the very young. 



The specimen above described is the only one I have known to 

 have occurred on the shores of the colony. It was captured in 

 1862 at Portland. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Plate 101. — Fig. 1, side view of specimen, one-ninth natural size. Fig. la, front view. 

 Fig. lb, anterior paddle, to show coloring of under-side. Fig. lc, hind paddle, to show coloring 

 of under-side. 



Frederick McCoy. 



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