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TESTUDO 5. Major oblong a, tejld profundio 



loricatd, unguibus palmare 

 que, plantarum quatuor. 



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cute 

 quin- 



The Hie a tee f < 

 Land Turtle 



This fpecies is a native of the main-land, but frequently imported to J 

 where it is often common. The (hell is very deep, and often above a foot and 



half in length ; 



but the furface is generally divided 



oblong hex 



nd radiated with (lender 



ftreaks from thence 



yellow 

 the circum- 





ierence. 



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Of the Frog kind. 





ANA. 1. Maxima compreffa mifcella. 



Curruru, Pif. 298. 

 An, Rana t ere/iris. Cat. ii. t. 69. 

 An, Rana dor jo puliifero. L. S. N. 



The Toad. 



This creas ure is very common in the inland parts of Jamaica, where it keeps a 



night, but lies flill during the day. It is large and thin, 



continued croaking at 



climbs with eafe, and lies fo flat, wherever it is, that an attentive eye alone is able 

 to obLrve it. • 





RANA 2. Minima palmis & plant is fijis. 



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This little fpecies is frequent in Mountferat, and may be fometimes feen in Ja- 



I It is a very a&ive creature, but never furpaffes an inch and a half in 



maica 

 length 



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I HOUGH the individuals of this clafs are very numerous, and all fur- 

 nifhed with proper limbs to convey them from one region to another, ei- 



ther by land or water, we feldom obferve the fame in any country or king 

 dom. Many forts, Imuft acknowledge, are of a vague difpofition, and alike the inha- 

 bitants of very remote provinces, among which we often find thofe that we leaft 

 exped fa); while others of a different nature, which are alfo the inhabitants of di- 

 am countries at times, leek different regions wi:h the different feafons of the year, and 

 return as regularly the enfuing changes. Thi^ might naturally induce a traveller to 



divide the birds of every country into the Reiidentiaries, the Polyclimacoines, and 

 the birds of pauage ; but, as Naturalifts, we niuft endeavour to divide them into 



orders and genera more appropriated to their natural dilpefidons, and the peculiar 

 forms of particular parts j for they have a more general uniformity in their habits 

 and appearances than any other tribe of beings; and the uies to which many of 

 them are put, either for food or pleafure, oblige us to be as clear as poifible both in 

 the diftribution and chara&eriftics 





of the individuals : 



and the better to avoid all 



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hardly a fowl 



Moor 



in 



thole parts. 



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fo diftant a country as America? and 



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