LOGGERHEAD TURTLE. 



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Other. They lay their eggs at three, and some- 

 times at four different times ; there being fourteen 

 days between every time ; so that they hatch and 

 creep from their holes into the sea at different times 

 also. When they have laid their complement of 

 eggs, they fill the hole with sand, and leave them 

 to be hatched by the lieat of the sun, which is 

 usually performed in about three weeks." It may 

 be proper to add, that the eggs are about the size 

 of tennis-balls, round, white, and covered with a 

 ^moofh parchment-hke skin. 



LOGGERHEAD TURTLE. 



Testudo Caretta. T. variegata, scutellis dorsalibm qmndecim, 



mtermediis postice gibbis. 

 Variegated Turtle, w^th fifteen dorsal scales, those of the 



middle range gibbous toward their tips. 

 Testudo Caretta. T. pedibvs pinniformibus, nnguibus palmarum 



plantarumque binisj testa ovata acute serrata. lAn, Si/st. Nat. 



p. 351. 



Testudo scufis dorsaUbus postice gibbis, unguibus palmarum planta^ 

 rumque binis. Lin. S^st. Nat. Gmel. p. 1038. 



Testudo Cephalo. Schneid. Schildkr. p. 303. 



testa ovato-cor data, serrata; scutellis disci quindecimt dorsali- 

 bm postice gibbis. Schoepf. Test. p. 67. 



This species exceeds in size* every other yet 

 known, except perhaps the coriacea. In its general 



* In the Leverian Museum is a skull, seemingly of this species, 

 which is said to have been taken from a turtle weighing more 

 than sixteen hundred pounds : it measures rather more than a 

 foot in length. 



