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To the list of synonymes, however, I would add the cinereous tortoise of 

 Brown,* the Testudo cinerea of Schoepfft and other naturalists, which is 

 certainly the young of the Emys picta, as was first determined by Palissot de 

 Beauvais, who had an opportunity of examining living specimens in Pennsyl- 

 vania. It also seems highly probable to me that the Emys Bellii of Gray,| and 

 of Dumeril and Bibron,§ is only a variety of this animal, as I have met with 

 specimens of the Emys picta slightly depressed along the vertebral column, of a 

 dusky-olive colour, and marked with bands, not unhke those described as 

 belonging to the Emys Bellii. 



* New 111. Zool. p. 115, lab. xlviii. figs. 1, 2. J Synop. Kept. p. 34. 



t Hist. Test., p. 18, tab. v. figs. 2, 3. § Hist. Nat. des Kept., torn. ii. p. 302. 



