FIERCE TORTOISE. 6*7 



and seizing with wonderful celerity j'oung birds, 

 &c. &c. It is found in all the rivers, lakes, and 

 pools, of East Florida, weighing from thirty to 

 forty pounds. The warts or processes on each 

 side the neck may constitute perhaps a sexual dif- 

 ference in this species, since they are not to be 

 found in that described by Dr. Garden and Mr. 

 Pennant. 



I must here observe, tliat the figure of a dried 

 specimen of this tortoise, published in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions, does not express with suf- 

 ficient accuracy the character of the upper sur- 

 face or shield, which in the specimen itself, now 

 preserved in the British Museum, is marked with 

 v^ery numerous foveolse or depressed points, and 

 with seven obscurely marked transverse dorsal 

 lines on the shield ; thus dividing it into so many 

 segments, while the extremities of the ribs are 

 visible on each side beneath the commencement 

 of the coriaceous part 



VAR. ? 



Testudo Rostrata, Thunherg, Nod. Act, Suec. 8, t. f.f. 2, 2. 



This should seem to be no other than the young 

 of the species above described ; the general form 

 and particular structure of the feet, &c. agreeing 

 with the former. The specimen described by 

 Thunherg was about the size of the palm of the 

 hand, and of a brown colour. 



Allied to the above is also the species thus briefly 

 described by Forskahl, in his Fauna Arabica, un- 



