BRITISH REPTILES. 
TESTUDINATA. CHELONIAD. 
Genus, Chelonia. Brongn. 
Generic Character. —Dorsum large, depressed, somewhat heart-shaped, covered 
with horny plates; feet depressed, fin-shaped. 
HAWK’S-BILL TURTLE. 
Chelonia imbricata. Schweig. 
Specific Character.—Dorsal plates thirteen, free at the margins, imbricated. 
Testudo imbricata, LINN. Syst. Nat. p. 350, sp. 2. Scuneip. Schildkr. p. 509. 
Penn. Faun. Ind. p. 87. Larr. Hist. Rept. I. p. 50. 
Daup. Hist. Rept. II. p. 39. 
Chelonia imbricata, ScHwx1G. Prod. in Archiy. Keenigsb. I. p. 291, et 408. 
Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 52, sp. 1. Bisron, Hist. Rept. II. 
p. 548, t. xxv. f. 2, Bonar. (Pr. Musign.) Syn. Chelon, 
Hawksbill Turile, Brown, Jamaic. p. 463. Carsss, Nat. Hist. Carol. II. 
Paoos) tarlix, 
