™ AMPHIBIA, REPTIUA. 



CLASS III. AMPHIBIA. 



Animals highly tenacious of life, and having the power 

 of respiring both on land and under water. 



ORDER I. REPTILIA. 



Funmhed idth feet. • 



1. Testudo. Bvdy tailed, covered above and beneath 



with a bony homy or coriaceous shell, or with scales 

 above : upper-mandible closing over the lower, like 

 the lid of a box. 



2. Lacerta. Body 4-footed, slender, tapering to a tail. 



3. Kana. Body 4-footed, without tail or/ any covering 



but the skin: hind-legs longer than the fore. : 



ORDER "II. SERPENTES. 



Without feet. 

 4 Coluber. With undivided plates on the belly, and 



divided -stales below the taiK 

 5. A* guts. With divided scales on the belly, and below 



the tail. : 





ORDER I. REPTILIA. Reptiles. 

 1. TESTUDO. Tcrtcise. 



1. T. cor-uttea-. Feet fin-like : body above browa* be- 

 neath paler : shell coriaceous, with 5 longitudinal 

 tubercled ribs. . 



Coriaceous Turtle. Br. Zool. iii. t. i. Shaw Zool. iir. t. 21. 



Body growing to 6 or 7 feet long, 3 or more wide, and to the 

 •weight of 8 hundred pounds : upper-jaw forked, and receiving the 

 extremity of the lower-one : fore-fins much longer than. the hind- 

 ones,' covered with a tough leathery skin: tail s\\qtU pointed. 

 f. T. imbrzeata. Feet fin-like : body ovate, with 13 im- 

 bricate* plates in the disk, and serrate round the 

 margins. 



Hawks-bill'Turtle. Ska;u Zool. t. 26. Phil. Trans. n> 22a. 



On the. Orkney Isles ; and in the Spring of 1774 was taken in 

 the Severn and placed in the fish-ponds of the Author's father, 

 where it lived till the winter. 



Body growing to a large size, roundish-ovate, slightly heart- 

 shaped, slightly carinate down the back : head fmall, prominent, 

 with the upper-bill curved over the lower : legs with 2 claws on 

 each : plates of the disk rather fquare, femitranfparent, variegated ; 

 of the circumference 25, pointed and incumbent on each other in a 

 ferrate manner ; tail a mere notch. 



