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CHELONIA IMBRICAT A.— Linnwus. 



Plate V. 



Characters. Head elongated, narrow; snout prolonged; jaws without serrae, 

 both hooked; shell oval; shghtly carinate, sub-cordiform, concave in front, 

 flattened and serrated behind, and covered with thirteen vertebral and lateral 

 plates, remarkably imbricated; two nails to each extremity. 



Synontmes. La Tortue caret, Dutertre, Hist, des Ant., torn. ii. p. 229. 

 Havvksbill Turtle, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 3.9, tab. xxxix. 

 Hawksbill T\iri\e, Brown, Hist. Jam., p. 463. 

 Testudo imbricata, Linnxus, Syst. Nat, torn. i. p. 350. 

 Le caret, Laceplde, Hist, des Quad. Ovip., torn. i. p. 105, tab. ii. 

 Testudo imbricata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. p. 1036. 

 Testudo imbricata, Schoepff, Hist. Test., p. S5, tab. xviii. 

 Testudo imbricata, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., tom. i. p. 50. 

 Testudo carretta, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 39. 

 Testudo imbricata, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. p. 89, pi. xxvi. xxvii. 

 Caretta imbricata, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 19. 

 Chelonia imbricata, Schweigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., vol. i. p. 291 and 408. 

 Clielonia imbricata, Gray, Synop. Rept., p. 52. 



Clielonia imbricata, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept, tom. ii. p. 547. 

 Chelonia imbricata, Cocteau, Hist, de I'Isle de Cuba, par Ramon de Lasagra, p. 28. 

 Hawkbill Turtle, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is depressed, oval or sub-cordiform, almost ecarinate, 

 slightly concave in front and over the shoulders, flattened, narrow and serrated 

 behmd, and covered with thirteen plates, imbricated hke tiles on the roof of a 

 house. Of these plates the first vertebral is irregularly hexagonal, larger in front 



