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does not correspond with it in any of the most remarkable points, while it is 

 perfectly applicable to the Cistuda Europea or Testudo pulchella of Schoepft', 

 which is only the young animal. It may even be doubted whether Schweigger 

 ever saw the real Emys insculpta, for he visited Paris in 1809, and published his 

 Prodromus in 1812; while the specimens in the Garden of Plants are said to have 

 been sent by Milbert, Lesueur and Leconte, from New York, which could only 

 have happened some years after. 



It follows, then, from these considerations, that the Emys pulchella of Schweig- 

 ger, is not identical with the Testudo insculpta of Leconte, and that the Emys 

 pulchella of Dumeril and Bibron is; yet their name cannot be retained, as 

 Leconte's has the right of priority. 



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