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PAINTED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Picta. T. testa ottonga demissc convexa, lorci, fusca, 



scutellisjlai-o marginatis. 

 Tortoise with oblong, slightly convex, smooth, brown shell, with 



the scutella bordered with yellow. 

 T. Testa oblonga, demme comesa, liCtissima, scutellis disci medii 



subquadrangularibus t jlu->:o marginatis; stcrno longitudine scuti. 



Schoepf. Te&t. p. 20. t . 4. 

 Testudo picta. T. testa plana, utrinque macula dupUd ex atro- 



ccerulescente notata, scutellis margine jla'co cinctis, collo per lon- 



gitudinemjlaronigroquestriato. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. 1045. 

 Cinereous Tortoise? Brown's Zoo/, p. Il6. t. 4-8. /. 1, 2. 



THE remarkable colours of the shield of this 

 species are sufficient to distinguish it pretty 

 readily from all others : the shell is of a smooth 

 surface, of a flattened or but slightly convex 

 form, and of a chesuut-brown colour, paler or 

 darker in different individuals, and consisting, 

 as usual, of thirteen segments, each of which is of 

 a form approaching to square, and pretty deeply 

 edged or bordered with pale yellow : a stripe of 

 the same colour also runs down the middle of the 

 dorsal segments, while the marginal pieces, which 

 are twenty-rive in number, are each marked by a 

 semi oval spot of the same colour at the edge, sur- 

 rounded by two, or sometimes by three yellow 

 bands, following the direction of the first-men- 

 tioned spot, and thus forming so many semi-ellip- 

 tic yellow zones or stripes on each piece. The 

 neatness and accuracy of these, as well as of the 

 yellow borders on the large or middle segments 



