ox 'I'MK status of ChKMtN'lA MKl'RKSSA Fin'. l63 



Speriiih-ii o— (PI. xix., ti---. li). 



Lor. — New (tiiineH ? Lent l)y tlie C^)ueeiis!aii(l Musouiii. 

 tSlightlv tiMer tlmn the |ifeee(lini;- one. 



Sji''rihn'ii () — (ii,i:'s. -t'O ii-1) nnd 44c). 



l^oc. — i'oft Dafwin, Nortliern TerritoiT. Noi'tli Australia. 

 Collected In Mi". Wn^^h W. Cl.iistie, in" .liine, 1908. Tl)is 

 specimen is the type of XnlKtur fcs.o'llnl !/.<, McC'nIhich, and is 

 in the Aii^tialian Museum Collection. 



S})eci))ieN 7— (Pis. xxi-.xxii., and tigs. 41 a-b, 42, 44(1, 45b, 

 46b, 47 a-b, 48a, 49f). 



7,^,,.. — Mui-ray Island, 'J'orres Sti-ait. (collected by Messrs. 

 C. Hedley andA. K. McCulloch. in September, 1907. This 

 specimen' is more than twice the size of the ty])e specimen of 

 X'ltiitor /f^,-;^>'//(?/"<. The head has been cast and skeletonised. 

 In the Australian Museum Collection. 



1 wish to express my thanks to the fullowing gentlemen who 

 have in various ways assisted me in the preparation of the 

 these pages: — Dr. (1. A. Boulenger, of the British Museum; 

 Dr. H. L. Kesteven, of the University of Sydney ; Dr. R. 

 Hamlyn-Harris, Director, and Mr. H. A. Longman, of the 

 Queensland Museum, Bi'isbane ; and lastly Mi. A. R. 

 McCulloch, whose kindly interest ami advice has been a great 

 help to me. 



All I'urlii reffn-iire to CwKiiONiA HKPKKSSA. — Mr. C. Hedley 

 very kindly called my attention to a nc^te made by Joliu 

 Macgillivray in his " Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. 

 ' Hatllesnake,'" which alnmstcertainly applies totiiis species:— 

 •' Turtle forms an important article of food, and four different 

 kinds are distinguished at Cape York and the Prince of Vfales 

 Islands. Three of these can be identified as the Green, the 

 Hawksbill, and the Loggerhead si)ecies, and tlie fourth is a 

 small one which [ never saw."ii This information was given to 

 Macgillivi-ay by the natives who were known to be very keen 

 discriminators between even closely allied forms. The speci- 

 men of ^ 'A^/d///" i1f'iin'!i!<i) figured on Pis. xxi-xxii, was bonglit 

 from the natives of Mui-ray Island, wlio also recognised it as 

 distinct from tlie Green Turtle. As we now have an authentic 



11 Macgillivray — Narr. Voy. " Kattlesnake," ii., 1852, p. 21. 



