BRITISH REPTILES. 



TESTUDINATA. 



CHELONIAD.E. 



Genus, Chelonia. Brongn. 



Generic Character. — Dorsum large, depressed, somewhat heart-shaped, 

 covered with horny plates ; feet depressed, fin-shaped. 



HAWK^S-BILL TURTLE. 



Chelonia imhricata. Schweig. 



Specific Character. — Dorsal plates thirteen, free at the margins, imbricated. 



Testudo imhricata, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 350, sp. 2. Schneid. Schildkr. p. 509. 



Penn. Faun. Ind. p. 87. Latr. Hist. Rept. I. p. 50. 



Daud. Hist. Rept. IT. p. 39. 

 Chelonia imhricata^ ^cnw^iQ. Prod, in Archiv. Koenigsb. I. p. 291, et 408. 



Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 52, sp. 1. Bibhon, Hist. Rept. 



IT. p. 548, t. XXV. f. 2. BoNAP. (Pr. Musign.) Syn. 



Chelon. 

 Hawh&hill Turtle, Brown, Jamaic. p. 463. Catesb. Nat. Hist. Carol. II. 



p. 39, t. lix. 



