10 Mil. •W. THEOBALD, JUN., ON THE 



the flood-tide makes, the dropping door is raised and lightly set 

 with a few bricks attacliod to it, to cause its sudden fall on any- 

 thing entering. Large lish are most commonly taken, but Turtle 

 also ; and, as they are visited every tide, and great numbers are set, 

 the amount of fish taken is collectively very considerable. 



The marine Turtles are caught either accidentaUy in the fishing- 

 stakes, or the females are taken by men in ambush in sandy places 

 where they come to deposit their eggs ; tlie privilege of col- 

 lecting which is farmed out by government to particular parties, 

 who, looking to the eggs rather than the animals, do not, as a 

 rule, molest the females. The Loggerhead {Gouana olivaced) is the 

 commonest species on the coast. It oviposits in March and April ; 

 and one I opened contained over 2G0 unshelled eggs, besides 103 

 perfect eggs which it had deposited before it was captured. The 

 cgg^ are white, spherical ; tlie shell somewhat coriaceous and 

 resilient. Diameter 1'55, weight 625 grains. This species is very 

 abundant on the Arakan coast. 



Glielonia virgata and Caretta squamata are far less common ; 

 and few Europeans in Birma have any suspicion that the Log- 

 gerhead is not the real Turtle, or could discriminate one from 

 tlie other. DermatOGhelijs coriacea also occurs on the coast ; 

 and a fine specimen was forwarded by Major S. 11. Tickell to 

 the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. "When alive it was covered 

 over with numerous white spots, like splashes of whitewash, 

 which have since disappeared. 



family GEO^lYDIDiE. 



Emydidce with a concave sternum in the male, indicating more 

 terrestrial habits than the typical ]£mydid(S. Eggs large, elongate, 

 few in number, 



Manotjuia, Gray. 



M. EMTS, M. & Schl. * * 



Testudo Phayrei, Blyth, teste Giinthei-. 



This species I have never met with ; but two specimens were 

 forwarded to Mr. Blyth by Lt.-Col. Pliayre, eitlier from Arakan 

 or, more probably, Maulmain, of which a few fragments alone 

 remaiii in the As. Soc. Mus. in Calcutta. 



