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the second volume of the Zoological Journal, p. 302, amongst the species of the genus Kino- 

 sternon, Spix, this is described as follows : 



" Species I. Shavianum. K. testa elongato-ovata, tricarinata ; scutis omnihus imbricatis, 

 marginahbus 23 ; sterno postice bifido. Testudo Pennsylvania, var. Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. 

 part i. p. 61 . pi. 15. Habitat ? 



" Of this elegant species I have seen but a single specimen, now in my collection, which, 

 as I obtained it from a dealer who had long possessed it, may, not improbably, be the iden- 

 tical one figured by Shaw, and stated by him to have been in the Leverian Museum. 



" The general colour of the upper shell is a very deep blackish brown ; the sternum and 

 under part of the margin yellowish." 



The original specimen alluded to by Mr. Bell, and figured by Dr. Shaw, was purchased by 

 the College at the sale of the Leverian Museum, in the year 1806. 



Mus. Leverianmn. 



Genus Cistudo. 



994. The shell of the speckled Box Tortoise (Cistudo Europaa ; Testudo Maria, Ray ; 



Testudo europcea, Bojanus). 



Fig. Shaw, Zool. iii. pi. 5 ; Scheepff, Test. tab. 1. 

 Hab. The temperate and southern parts of Europe. 



Its anatomy is beautifully described and figured by Bojanus, in his ' Anatome Testudinis 

 Europsese,' fol. 



Mus. Leverianum. 



995. The shell of the speckled Box Tortoise (Cistudo Europcea), with some of the 



scutes removed from the carapace. Mus. Srit. 



996. The shell of the speckled Box Tortoise (Cistudo Europ<ed). Hunterian. 



997. The carapace of the speckled Box Tortoise (Cistudo Europcea), with the first 



four vertebral and last pair of costal scutes removed. Mus. Brit. 



998. A skeleton of the American Box Tortoise (Cistudo clausa; Testudo Carolina et 

 Test, clausa, Linn.). 



The neural arch of the atlas is almost wholly supported by its proper centrum, which is not 

 fixed to the second cervical vertebra. The fourth cervical vertebra is biconvex. The tenth 

 and eleventh vertebrae, counting from the first dorsal, form the sacrum ; but the iliac bones 

 are chiefly supported by the expanded pleurapophyses of the second sacral vertebra. The tym- 

 panic cavities extend into the mastoid bones, which are thus converted into 'bullee osseee.' 



Presented by William Home Clift, Esq. 



