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tious two specimens of Manouria fusca , both from Pioang, 

 in the collections of the British Museum. 



In 1860 the British Museum got another specimen of 

 Manouria fusca from Australia (?) , labelled Murray-river- 

 turtle. Gray ^), in describing and figuring this third spe- 

 cimen (the first complete one, the others being but shells 

 without the animal), states his genus Manouria to be a 

 typical land-tortoise , and severs it from the family of the 

 Emydae in which he had formerly placed it. 



A species, described by Leconte ^) in 1854 under the 

 name of Teleopus luxatus from Java, must, according to 

 Gray, be regarded as a species of the genus Manouria, 

 probably as Manouria fusca. 



In 1853 E. Blyth *) described a great Burmese land- 

 tortoise, under the name of Testudo Phayrei^ with double 

 caudal plates, very long and thick imbricated scales on the 

 forelimbs, similar great elongate scales at the heel, and 

 a group of 5 principal obtuse spines on either side of the 

 tail, the median of them remarkably strong and thick. 

 As habitat of this species Blyth mentions Arrakan , Tenas- 

 serim Provinces. 



These specimens described by Blyth were afterwards 

 examined by John Anderson ''), who compared them with 

 specimens of Manouria^ and found that these tortoises 

 resembled one another in all points except in the arrange- 

 ment of the pectorals. In the MawowWa-specimens the 

 pectorals were separated from each other, whilst the pec- 

 torals of the two specimens of T. Phayrei formed a suture 

 with each other. Moreover Anderson observed that the 

 iHfawowWa-specimens had concave sterna, those of T. Phayrei 

 being flat. As the il/awowWa-specimens were captured in a 

 locality in Cachar, and T. Phayrei was from Arrakan, 



1) Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 395, pi. XXXI (not 18G3 as g 

 Boulenger's Catalogue, p. 158). 



2) Proceed. Ac. Philadelphia, 1854, p. 187. 



3) Joura. As. Soc. Beng. XXII, p. 639. 



4) Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 133. 



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