TORTOISE. 



77 



CLASS 



III. 



REPTILES. 



D I V. I. P E D AT E D. 



Br. Zool. III. p. 7. Genus I *. 



Green Turtle, Catejly, ii. 38, 



Teftudo marina vulgaris ; ttjurucua. Rati Syx. ^ad. Z54. 25$. 



Teftudo Mydas, iz«. 350. 



La Tortae franche, Rochfort Ant ill. i. 495. 



TO RT O I S E with fin-like feet : two claws to the fore, one to the 

 hind : a blunt head : convex Ihell : the dorfal fegments fmooth. 

 This fpecies abounds about the Bahama ifles, but never lay their eggs 

 there, but migrate at certain feafons from Cuba -, yet this kind, and the 

 Loggerhead, depofit their eggs in the fand on the beaches, in Eafi 

 Florida, and feed during fummer in the rivers and creeks f. Carolina 

 is fupplied with them from the Bahamas, as an article of luxury. 

 They breed about Cuba, and other adjacent illes. 



OTNUS. 



1. TORTOISE, 



I. GR«EW„ 



PLACE. 



Teftudo Cantta difta. Rail Sjn. ^ad. 258. 

 La Caret, Rochfort Antill. i. jo2. 

 Teltudo imbricata, Lin, 350. 



npORTOiSE, with the upper mandible incurvated : with two claws 

 on every foot : the plates of the back elevated and fharp : two rows 



* The references of pagesi in genera and fpecies, are to the laft oftavo edition of 

 the BritiJIi Zoology. The numbers, in refpeft to fpecies, are the fame in both quarta ani 

 eilavo. 



f.Doftor Garden. , 



M of 



2. HAWKBILL. 



