38 CHELONIA CARETTA. 



Sometimes the young are brought to our markets, and are considered tolerable 

 food; or the old animal is cut up and sold in pieces by the pound, as is sometimes 

 the better kind of Turtle, but only to people unacquainted with the appearance of 

 the flesh, and then the venders conceal the head, to escape detection. 



To Dr. B. B. Strobel I am indebted for a singular variety of this animal, if it 

 should not prove a distinct species. The form of the body is nearly the same, 

 but the margin of the shell is entire posteriorly; the neck is short, with a large 

 flexible wart on either side. The animal came from Key West, and was 

 unfortunately destroyed before a full description could be made out. 



