FIERCE TORTOISE. 6>7 



and seizing with wonderful celerity young birds, 

 &c. &c. It is found in all the rivers, lakes, and 

 pools, of East Florida, weighing from thirty to 

 forty pounds. The warts or processes on each 

 side the neck may constitute perhaps a sexual dif- 

 ference in this species, since they are not to be 

 found in that described by Dr. Garden and Mr. 

 Pennant. 



I must here observe, that the figure of a dried 

 specimen of- this tortoise, published in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions, does not express with suf- 

 ficient accuracy the character of the upper sur- 

 face or shield, which in the specimen itself, now 

 preserved in the British Museum, is marked with 

 very numerous foveolae or depressed points, and 

 with seven obscurely marked transverse dorsal 

 lines on the shield ; thus dividing it into so many 

 segments, while the extremities of the ribs are 

 visible on each side beneath the commencement 

 of the coriaceous part. 



VAR. ? 

 Testudo Rostrata. Thunberg. Nov. Act. Suec. S. t. /./ 2, 3. 



THIS should seem to be no other than the young 

 of the species above described; the general form 

 and particular structure of the feet, &c. agreeing 

 with the former. The specimen described by 

 Thunberg was about the size of the palm of the 

 hand, and of a brown colour. 



Allied to the above is also the species thus briefly 

 described by Forskahl, in his Fauna Arabica, un- 



