CLASS III. 



REPTILES. 



• i 



GENUS I. TORTOISE. 



Body, covered either with a shell or strong hide, 



divided by sutures. 

 Feet, four fin-like. 

 Tail, short. 



Testudo coriacea sive Mercu- 

 rii. Rondel. 450? Gesner 

 pise. g46 ? 



Testudo coriacea. T. pedibus 

 pinniformibus muticis, testa 

 coriacea, cauda angulis sep- 

 tem exaratis. Lin. syst. 350. 



Testudo testa coriacea, per lon- 

 gitudinem striata. Gm. Lin. 

 1036. 



LeLuth. De la Cepede. Hist. l. Coriace* 

 des Ovip. iii. tab. 3. ' ous 



Shaw Gen. Zool. iii. 76. 



Tuberculated Tortoise. Pen- 

 nant in Ph. Tr. 1771- 272. 

 tab. 10. /. 4. (Young.) 



Turtle. Borlase Cornwall, 

 285. Plate 27- 



J. HIS species is common to the Mediterra- 

 nean, and our southern seas, and is not, as far 

 as we know, discovered in any other. 



Two of a vast size were taken on the coast 

 of Cornxvally in the mackrel nets, a little after 



