TURTLES. 



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pearance hasten to devour them ; whilst those 

 that have escaped their terrestrial persecutors by 

 getting into the sea, have to encounter a host of 

 voracious fishes and legions of ambushed croco- 

 diles."* 



Genus Cheloke, (Brongn.) 



If we consider the Green Turtle, the Logger- 

 head, and the Hawksbill, as constituting but so 



HEAD OF GREEN TURTLE. 



many species of a single genus, the characters of 

 that genus will be the same as those already 



* Penny Cyclop, xxv. 76. 



