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186 THE HABITS OF MALAY REPTILES. 
afungus. Their tenacity of life is, as in most tortoises, very 
great. I once brought one from Bukit Timah, where they are 
common, for the Museum, and on preparing its skeleton it was 
had thus recovered from this s« as injur у. 
Cyelemys_platynota, the fla t-backed tortoise, is a rather 
larger animal, recognised by a peculiar flattening on the top of 
its shell. It is usually a very sliabby, disreputable locii 
animal, with a dirty brown irregular carapace. [t is less often 
noticed, as it is even more aquatic than the jungle ове 
remaining under water most of its time. It seems to be abu: 
dant in the river at Selitar bungalow, where Dr. Hanitsch got 
several, and it has turned up in the Botanic ке опсе п 
the Lake and once їп а smaller pond, where it v s devouring 
the wateriilies. In captivity it will eat rice, fish, leaves or 
ruit. 
The box-tortoise, жү amboinensis, is very common in 
the rice fields in Malacca, and used to be common in “Singapore, 
it was кшен plentiful on the ground on which is now the 
Tenn Market. It is a very pretty little tea with a 9 
its name of box-tortoise. Iti is very fond of the water and often 
surface owev Е; г, it often leaves the arte and rambles about, 
especia Пу i in the та ing, iu search of food, and І have seen them 
rnn over by bullock carts on the roads in Malacca. They are 
very easily kept and are quite omnivorous, eatiug fish, boiled 
