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Choris, coll.)-— Hoi.BKooK, N. Amer. Herpet., 2d ed., II, 1842, p. 39, 

 pi. V (coast of Carolina). — Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. Meddel. 

 Naturh. Foren. (Copenhagen), 1862 (1863), p. 286; author's separate, 

 p. 134 (8t. Thomas). — (tundlach, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 II, No. 5, Apr., 1867, p. 105 (Cuba) ; Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., IV, 

 1875, p. 350 (Cuba); Contrib. Erpet. Cubana, 1880, p. 17 (Cuba).— 

 Stahl, Fauna Puerto-Rico, 1882, p. 68 (Porto Rico). — Caretta irnbricata 

 Merrem, Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 19. — Girard, Herpet. U. S. Expl. Exp., 

 1858, pp. 439, 440 (West Indies).— Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Espail. Hist. 

 Nat., X, 1881, p. 307 (Porto Rico). — Chelonia {Caretta) imhricata Coc- 

 TEAU, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, IV, Rept., 1838, p. 27 (Cuba).— £'re<- 

 mnclitiys imhricata AciAssiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, 1857, 

 p. 381 (West Indies, Key West, Little Antilles, Jamaica, Cayman 

 Islands).— Garman, Bull." U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 25, 1884, pp. 287, 299 

 (Bermuda). — Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comui., 1900, p. 25 (Porto 

 Rico). — Chelone irnbricata Strauch, Chenol. Studien, 1862 (p. 181) 

 (part). — BouLENGER, Cat. Chel. Brit. Mus., 1889, p. 183 (part: Bahamas; 

 Guatemala, French Guiana, Tehuantepec). 



1788. Testudo caretta Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. et Serp., I, Syn. meth.— 

 BoNNATERRE, Tabl. Euc. Erpet., p. 21, pi. iv, fig. 1 (part) (not of Lin- 

 naeus). — Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., II, 1S03, p. 39, pi. xvii, fig. 2 (near 

 the Atlantic islands and coast of America, Cayman Islands, Jamaica). 



1873. Onychochelys kraussi Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 398, figs, 

 (type locality, French Guiana; types in Brit. Mus.; Dr. Krauss coll.). 



The hawksbill, which furnishes the valuable "tortoise shell," is 

 superlicially characterized hy the horny plates on its back overlapping 

 with their posterior borders after the fashion of fisli scales or shingles. 

 The accompan^ying- ilhistrations (tigs. 11K5-19T), which are from a Porto 

 Rican specimen less than half grown, give a fair idea of the external 

 characters by which this species is distinguished from the other marine 

 turtles frequenting the same waters. 



The U. S. Fish Connnission J^ls/i Hawk expedition brought home 

 several young specimens from Mayaguez, but Professor Evermann 

 writes that this species, like the green turtle, is rare except at the 

 eastern end of the island. 



Lid of specimen X of Eretmochelys imhricata. 



