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CHELONIA IMBRICATA.—Limiwus. 



Plctte V. 



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

 both hooked; shell oval; slightly carinate, sub-cordiform, concave in front, 

 flattened and serrated behind, and covered with thirteen vertebral and lateral 

 plates, remarkably imbricated; two nails to each extremity. 



Synonymes. La Tortue caret, Dulertre, Hist, des Ant., torn. ii. p. 229. 



Hawksbill Turtle, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 3.9, tab. xxxix. , 



Havvksbill Twrile, Broivn, Hist. Jam., p. 463. i^ J 



Testudo imbrlcata, Linnseus, Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 350. / 



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



Testudo iinbricata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. p. 1036. 



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



Testudo imbricata, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept, torn. i. p. 50. 



Testudo carretta, Dauclin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 39. 



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



Caretta imbricata, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 1 9. 



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



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



Chelonia imbricata, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 547. 



Chelonia imbricata, Cocteau, Hist, de I'lslc dc Cuba, par Ramon de Lasagra, p. 28. 



Hawkbill Turtle, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is depressed, oval or sub-cordiform, almost ecarinate, 

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

 behind, and covered with thirteen plates, imbricated like tiles on the roof of a 

 house. Of these plates the first vertebral is irregularly hexagonal, larger in front 



