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TABULAR TORTOISE. 



Testudo Tabulata. T. testa oblonga gibba fusca, scutellis disci 

 rectangulis sulcatis, areolis flavescentibus. 



Tortoise with oblong gibbose brown shell, with the scutella of 

 the disk rectangular and furrowed ; with )^ellowish centres. 



Testudo tabulata. T, testa oblonga gibba, scutellis disci rectan- 

 gulis sulcatis, areolis subgibberis. Schoepf. Hist. Test, p, 56, 

 t. 12./. 2. 13./. 1. 2. 



Testudo terrestris Brasiliensis. ^e^. 1. 121. t. 80. /. 2. 



This was first described and figured in Seba's 

 Thesaurus, and is there said to be a native of 

 Brasil, but it is believed to be rather an African 

 species. It is distinguished by the greater uni- 

 formity, both as to shape and size, of the pieces 

 Avhich compose the disk, than in others of the 

 genus; each piece being flattish or but slightly 

 convex, and, in general, of an hexagonal figure, 

 though some of the side pieces are rather pentago- 

 nal : the central part of each is large, and slightly 

 granulated, and the sides pretty clearly and 

 strongly sulcated or lineated with numerous fur- 

 rows, and the whole has a kind of tabular or flat- 

 tened appearance, as expressed in the specific 

 name : the convexity, however, of the shell itself 

 is very considerable, and the pieces of Avhich it is 

 composed rise towards the middle of each. The 

 colour of this species is a yellowish chesnut, palest 

 or yellowest on the centres of the several divisions : 

 the head is serpentine ; the mandibles serrated or 

 denticulated : the eyes black and briglit : the neck 

 brown, wrinkled, scaly, and extensile to the length 



