78- AMPHIBIA. REPTIUA. 



CLASS III. AMPHIBIA. 



Animals highly tenacious of life, and having the power 

 of respiring both on land and under water. 



ORDER I. REPTILIA. 



Furnished with feet. 



1. TESTUDO. .Bo dy tailed, covered above and beneath 



with a bony horny or coriaceous shell, or with scales 

 above: upper-mandible closing over the lower, like 

 the lid of a box. 



2. LACERTA. Body 4-footed, slender, tapering to a tail. 



3. HANA. Body 4-footcd, without tail or any covering 



but the skin : . hind-legs longer than the fore. 



ORDER II. SERPENTES. 



Without feet. 



4. COLUBER. With undivided plates on the belly, and 



divided scales below the tail. 



5. AN GUIS. With divided scales on the belly, and below 



the tail. 



ORDER 1. REPTILIA. Ibftile*. 



1. TESTUDO. Tortoise. 



T. cvriacect. Feet fin-like: body above brown, be- 

 neath paler : shell coriaceous, with 5 longitudinal 

 tub.ercled ribs. 



Coriaceous Turtle. Br. Zool. in. t. i. Shaw Zool.'\\i. /. 21. 



Body growing to 6 or 7 feet long, 3 or more wide, and to the 

 weight of 8 hundred pounds : upper-jaw forked, and receiving the 

 extremity of the lower-one ; fore-fins much longer than- the 'hind- 

 ones, covered, with a tough leathery skin : tail 'short,' pointed. 



. T. ijnbricata. Feet fin-like: body ovate, with 13 im- 

 bricate plates in the disk, and serrate rouad the 

 margins. 



Hawks-bill Turtle. Shatu Zool. t. 26. Phil. Trans, n. 222. 



On the Orkney Isles; and in the Spring of 1774 was taken in 

 the Severn and placed in the fish-ponds of the Author's father, 

 where it lived till the winter. 



Body growing to a large size, roundish-ovate, slightly heart- 

 shaped, slightly carinate down the back : head fmall, prominent, 

 with the upper-bill curved over the lower : legs with 2 claws on 

 each : plates of the disk rather fquare, femitranfparent, variegated ; 

 of the circumference 25, pointed and incumbent on each other in a 

 ferrate manner : tail a mere notch. 



