32 THE STORY OF REPTILE LIFE. 



and head-shield. How wonderfully this is done 

 can be seen in the accompanying illustration. 



Of the Land Tortoises, one of the most familiar, 

 at least in Great Britain, is the " Greek Tortoise " 



Fig. 5. Armadillo rolled up. 



(Testudo iberia), this being the species commonly 

 offered for sale on barrows in the streets, from 

 whence it finds its way into our gardens, and 

 also, not seldom, our houses, being imported into 

 the latter under the mistaken idea that it will 

 kill the "black beetles." 



