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different individuals, and sometimes whitish : the 

 interior or under edges of the upper shell, as well 

 as the upper edges or commissures of the lower, 

 are elegantly streaked with black, as if artificially 

 painted, and this variegation is continued over 

 the skin of the sides of the hodv. 



VAR. 



THE very small Tortoise, figured in Mr. Brown's 

 Illustrations of Zoology, under the name of T. 

 ciuerea, notwithstanding some slight variations in 

 point of form, colour, and even in the numher of 

 lamina?, can hardly he considered in any other 

 light than as the young of the above species. It 

 may also be farther observed, that, on viewing a 

 figure of the T. picta, the spectator might at first 

 imagine the shell to be divided into eighteen in- 

 stead of thirteen segments, on account of the yel- 

 low dorsal stripe. 



SPOTTED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Guttata. T. testa obfonga modice conrexa, Itxri, fusca, 



guttisjlavis sptirsis. 

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



with scattered yellow spots. 



Testudo terrestris Amboinensis. Scb. 1. p. 130. t. 80. f. 7. 

 Testudo punctata. T. testa oblonga, modice comexa, Ixri, fusca, 



guttis flaws spanis. Schoepf. Test. p. 25. t. 5. 



THE Testudo guttata, or Spotted Tortoise, may 

 be as readily ascertained as the species before de- 



