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body. He repeated the experiment of taking out 

 the brain upon several other Tortoises, both of 

 land and fresh water ; all of Avhich lived for a con- 

 siderable space without the brain. He observed 

 also, that having cut off the heads of some, and 

 opening the bodies twelve days afterwards, the 

 motion of the heart was still perceptible ; so slowly 

 is the vital principle discharged from these inac- 

 tive animals. 



The species of Testudo most liable to be con- 

 founded with the Grasca seem to be the T. pusilla 

 of Linnasus, the tabulata of Schoepf, the sulcata 

 of Millar, and the marginata of Schoepf. Linnseus 

 himself quotes no figure for his T. Grseca, which 

 has greatly tended to increase the general uncer- 

 tainty. 



MARGINATED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Marginata. T. testa oblonga fusca gibba flam mriata, 



postice explanato-depressa. 

 Tortoise with blackish-brown, oblong gibbose shell variegated 



with yellow, widened and depressed on the hind part. 

 Testudo Graja. T, testa postice explanato-depressa, lateribus 



obtusa, scutellis subgibbis, glabris; marginali anteriori lineari, 



Hermann, 



Testudo marginata. testa oblonga gibba; lateribus retusa^ 

 margine postico explanato-depressa, scutellis 24. Schoepf. Test, 

 p. 52. t. 11. and 12. f. 1. 



This, according to Mr. Schoepf, is the species 

 erroneously figured and described in the Count de 

 Cepede's work as the Testudo Graeca, and consi- 



V. III. p. I, 2 



