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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Several views of a young specimen from the Bonin Islands, just 



hatched %^ 393-395), will help in the identification of this species. 



Habitat.—Widely distributed in the tropical part of the Pacific 



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Figs. 393-395.— Chelonia japonka, young nit si7f -^qi tj-xittoi. . «• 



uiM... JNAI. SIZE. ,<9d, ENTIRE ANIMAL FROM ABOVE- 3'I4 

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Ocean, but ai)parently less common on the coasts of Japan than the 

 other species, judging from the scant records available. It breeds on 

 the Bonm Islands, and may be the prevailing species there 



