Zoology.'] 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



l_Iieptilia, 



Measurements — continued. 



Reference. — Testudo longicollis, Sbaw, Gen. Zool. v. 3, t. 6 ; = Chelodina 

 Nov(B-HoUandice, Dum. & Bib. Erp. v. 2, p. M3, t. 21, p. 2. 



Tins liaudsome Tortoise is as common in the rivers of Southern 

 Gippsland as the Chelemys Macquaria is in the Murray and its 

 tributaries ; and although it also inhabits the more northern 

 Australian rivers, the Chelemys has not yet been found in those 

 flowing south. Although the yellow upturned sides of the cara- 

 jiace are usually marked with square brown patches on the edges 

 of the plates, and those below have usually broad brown edges, 

 some rare examples have the brown so extended as almost to 

 ol)literate the usual, yellow ground colour. The detailed measure- 

 ments I have given show how the individual plates, as well as the 

 general outline of carapace and plastron, vary ; in none of my 

 specimens do the anterior edges of the 2nd and llth marginal 

 plates coincide mth sutures of the costal plates, as mentioned in 



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