352 ZOOLOGY. 



as in the land tortoise ; sometimes they terminate in 

 slender fingers, as in the lizard ; and at other times the ex- 

 tremities of the fingers and toes are broadened out, as in the 



F g. 349. Skeleton of the Tortoise.* 



gecko (Fig. 350) and being provided with short cutaneous 

 folds performing the office of suckers, they enable this hideous 



* Skeleton of the Tortoise ; the plastron has been removed : vc, cervical 

 vertebrae ; vd, dorsal vertebrae ; c, ribs ; cs, sternal ribs, the marginal 

 bones of the carapace; o, scapula; cl, collar-bone ; co, coracoid bone; b, 

 pelvis ; f t the femur ; t> tibia ; p t fibula. 



