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PENSYLVANIAN TORTOISE. 



Testudo Pensylvanica. T. testa eUiptica loem wiicolore, dorso 



planiusculoj scutellis intermediis rhomboideis suhimbricatis, prima 



f>ubtrianguIo, Schoepf. Test. p. 107. t. 24. 

 . Tortoise with smooth, elliptic, brown shell, with flattish back, 



the middle range of scutella subrhomboid and subimbricated, 



the first subtriangular. 

 Testudo Pensylvanica. T. palmarum mguibus quinque, plantar 



rum quatuor, caudiz apice corneo acuto, Lin, St/st. Nat. 



Gmel 1042. 

 Small Mud Tortoise. Edw* 287- 



This is one of the smaller Tortoises, the shell 

 measuring three or four inches in length when ap- 

 parently full grown. Its form is oval, its convex- 

 ity moderate, its surface smooth, and its colour 

 brown : the middle range of dorsal pieces are of a 

 longer form than in other Tortoises, and are so 

 placed as to lap over each other at the tips, which 

 are slightly emarginated : the uppermost piece is 

 of a triangular shape : the two upper side-pieces 

 irregularly or obscurely quadrangular, and the re- 

 maining ones pentangular: the marginal pieces 

 are twenty-three in number, the upper or join- 

 ing piece being very small : the edges of the shell, 

 are tinged with dull yellow : the lower shell also 

 is of a yellowish colour, tinged with brown round 

 the commissures or junctures of the pieces, and 

 is constituted nearly on the same plan as in the 

 close tortoise, the upper and lower division being 

 moveable in such a manner as to enable the ani- 

 mal to conceal itself almost entirely by shutting 



