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Choris, coll.). — Hoi.brook, N. Amer. Herpet., 2d erl., II, 18-42, p. 39, 

 pi. v (coast of Carolina). — Reiniiakdt and Luetkex, Vid. Meddel. 

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

 p. 134 (St. Thomas). — Gundlach, 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 imbricata 

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

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

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

 teau, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, IV, Kept, 1838, p. 27 (Cuba) .— Eret- 

 mochelys imbricata Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, 1857, 

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

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

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

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

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

 Guatemala, French Guiana, Telmantepec). 



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

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

 naeus). — Daudin, Hist. Nat, Rept., II, 1803, p. 39, pi. xvn, fig. 2 (near 

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



1873. Onychochelys hraussi 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 

 superficially characterized by the horny plates on its back overlapping 

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

 The accompanying- illustrations (tigs. 193-197), 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 Commission Fish 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. 



List of specimens <>J' Eretmochelys imbricata. 



