j5 2 reptiles and birds. 



raised at once, like the points of a wool-card. When the fishermen 

 see a sleeping turtle they approach it, and throw into the sea one 

 of these Remora, which dives under the turtle, and fixes itself to it by 

 means of their cephalic disc. As the fish is attached to a long cord 

 by means of a ring in its tail, it is drawn on board along with its 



LC The Green Turtle is that from which turtle soup, celebrated for 

 its delicacy and excellence, is made. This dish is of modern m- 



Fig. 39.— Hawk's-bill Turtle. 



vention the first turtle having been brought to London by Admiral 

 Con in 1752. It was long very eostly, and even is now, although 

 considerably modified by the introduction of steam and other adjuncts 



t0 "Srf the tortoise-shell of commerce comes from the Green 

 Turde but by far the finest is produced by the Hawk's-Ml Turtle 

 (cTdJa imblicata, Fig. 39); In this speoes the p totes of : the disc 

 thirteen in number, are imbricated, or lapping over each other, the 

 muzzle i long and compressed; the jaws with straight edges, with- 

 Zt den attan curving slightly towards each other at their extremities, 

 ^ h two nanl on each fin. It rarely attains the size or weight of the 



