TORTOISE. 



79 



Head triangular j nofe flender, produced like that of a mole : the 

 neck thick, long, retraftile : IriDes lemon-colored^ lively : have a fkin 

 like a niftating membrane. . 



Fore-feet with five toes, and two fpurious; ftrong claws on the 

 three firft : Hind-feet with the fame number of toes and claws, with 

 only one fpurious : flcin of the legs loofe, wrinkled, dufky green : 

 Tail Ihort and thick. 



Inhabits no further north than the rivers of Savannah and Alatamaha, 

 in South Carolina ; alfo thofe oi Eaft Florida : grows to a great fize, 

 to feventy, and even a hundred pounds in weight. Is very ftrong, fwift, 

 and fierce ; and, if attacked or difturbed, will raife itfelf on its legs, 

 and leap forward, to bite the aflailant, with great fury and violence. 

 The flefh is very delicate, and even preferable to that of the Green . 

 Tortoife. 



This fpecies (with beautiful drawings taken from the live animal) 

 were communicated by Do£tor Garden, late of Charleftown, and de- 

 fcribed and engraven in the Philojophical TranJaSiions, 



place. 



f~r^ With a fmall Head, deprefled : upper mandible hooked : eyes 

 near the end of the nofe : middle row of fcales obtufely pointed : 

 Sternum lozenge-fliaped ; joined to the fides by a ftrong membrane : 

 Toes five before, four behind ; legs fquamofe and plicated : length of 

 head and neck fix inches and a half: body nine : Tail five and a half, 

 cultrated, fcaly, and at top ftrongly ferrated. 



Inhabits the rivers of New York. Seen in the coUedlion of Mr. 

 ^ho. Bolton, near Halifax. 



6. SERRATED. 



PLACE. 



Teftudo Carolina, Lin. ^^z.-'—Gron. Zooph. No. 77. 

 Land Tortoife from Carolina, Eii-xv. 20<^. —Laiufon, 133. 



'Tp "With a blunt nofe : long thick neck covered with a purplifli fkin ; 

 irides yellow, body very convex ; fcales large, marked with con- 

 centric lines j color brown, chequered with yellow : five toes on the fore 



M s feet I 



7. CHEQUERED, 



