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specimens, in particular, from Cayenne and Guada- 

 loupe. Spix and the Prince Maximilian found this 

 species in Brazil, in the forests bordering the 

 Amazon. 



Testudo carhonaria, a species closely allied to ta- 

 bulata, is assigned by the learned French herpeto- 

 logists (I know not on what authority) to Jamaica, 

 as well as to Brazil, Cayenne, and Chili. 



In Dr. Robinson's MSS. I found the following 

 brief notes of Tortoises (Hicatees) which he pro- 

 cured in Jamaica, but whether he considered the 

 species indigenous or not, does not appear. — " One 

 of these Land Turtles laid two eggs, an egg each 

 day successively, on board the ' Friendship,' on my 

 passage to England. The second-laid egg had an 

 indenture, which makes me conjecture they are soft 

 immediately after expulsion.* They are elliptical, 

 and about one inch long." 



" A Land Turtle had ten full-formed eggs, and ten 

 small [in the ovary] when it died; and had laid two 

 some days before, each of the eggs being indented." 



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About the latter part of the year 1846, Mr. Hill's 

 attention was directed to some hitherto unrecognized 

 tenants of the lowland ponds in the vicinity of 

 Spanish Town. No native species of Frog or Toad 

 had been discovered in Jamaica, with the exception 

 of the Tree-frogs (Ui/ladce), which have been al- 

 ready noticed, when a Batrachian was brought to 



* I would beg the reader's reference to my own observations on 

 the eggs of Thecadactylus Icevis, in page 184. of this volume. 



