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escape from the egg, and renders more service in 

 this way to Egypt than the ichneumon.* 



The Fierce Tortoise. Testudo Ferox. Gm. Penn. 

 Trans. Phil. LXI. x. 1 — 3. Cop. Lacep. I. vii. 

 Schoepf. xix. 



Inhabits the rivers of Carohna, Georgia, Florida, and 

 Guiana; remains in ambuscade under the reeds, &c., 

 and seizes birds, reptiles, &c. ; devours the young 

 alligators, but becomes the prey of the old ones. Its 

 flesh is good eating.t 



* Sonnini, Voyage en Egypt, t. ii. p. oZZ. 



■j- Add, Trionyx Javanicus, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xiv. ; — TV. Carinatiis, 

 id,; — Tr. Stellatm, id. ; Tr. Euphraticus, Olivier, Voy. en Turq. &c. 

 pi. 42 ; — Tr. Gangeticus, Duvaucel ; — Tr. Granosus, Leach; or Test. 

 Granosa, Schcspf. xxx. A. and B. 



N. B. The tortoise of Bartram appears to be the testudo ferox, to which 

 the artist by mistake has given two claws too many on each foot. 



