ASCENSION ISLAND. 1752. 8o 



Diomedea Adfcenfionis was caught here. 

 It was entirely white, not even the thirteen 

 feathers in the tail excepted; had red feet, 

 formed chiefly for fwimming ; and only black 

 tips to its wings : for the reft, it is -like the 

 Diomedea pfcatoria {felecamu Pifcator), which 

 is likewife to be met with here. We alfo faw 

 a fpeeies of little black fea birds, but only 

 upon the wing. 



Tortoises {Tejludo Mydas) e . They are 

 afh-coloured at top, and pale yellow below : 

 the fore-feet are longer than the hind-feet ; 

 the firft are two feet, and the latter about fix 

 inches, long : the neck is two feet in circum- 

 ference : on the middle of the back, longitu- 

 dinally, are five fcales, and next to thefe, on 

 each fide, four pair of fcales, of which the 

 two next are oblong, and very large ; but the 

 other two pair are unequal: all about the 

 fides are twenty-five fcales : the breaji is lon- 

 gitudinally covered with thirteen fcales, which 

 have four pair of larger ones on each fide : 

 befides thefe, there are feven or more pair of 

 Jefs ones about the jaws, one at the tail, and 



* Tefludo aim. Muf. Regis, p. $ . Amatn. Mad. I. 

 p. 84. Vulg. Turtles. 



likewife 



