IMBRICATED TURTLE. 89 



pressly informed, by an author quoted in Mr. 

 Schoepf 's publication that on examining a great 

 many specimens of the T. Mydas, or common 

 green turtle (which Linnteus characterises by 

 having two claws on the fore and one on the hind 

 feet), some were found with two claws on all 

 the feet, others with two claws on the fore and 

 one on the hind ; and, lastly, others with only a 

 single claw on all the feet. 



IMBRICATED TURTLE. 



Testudo Imbricata. T. variegata, scutellis disci imbricatis tre^ 

 decim. 



Variegated Turtle with thirteen imbricated scales on the disk. 

 Testudo imbricata. T. pedilms pinniformibus, testa cordata sub' 



carinata serrata, scutellis imbricatis^ cauda squamata. lAn, 



Syst. Nat. p. 350. 

 T. palmarum plant anmque miguibus binis, scutis laxe atque imbri- 



catim iiwumbentibus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmcl. p. 1036. Schneid. 



Schildkr. p. SOg. 

 Imbricated Turtle, or Llawksbill. 



The Testudo imbricata is so named from the 

 peculiar disposition of its scales or laminse, which 

 commonly lap over each other at their extremities 

 in the manner of tiles on the roof of a building. 

 The outline of the shell, viewed from above, is 

 more heart-shaped than in other sea tortoises, and 

 terminates more acutely : each of the middle row 

 of scales on the back is also of a sharpened form 



* Quotation given by Mr. Schoepf from a writer on this sub- 

 ject in the Jllgm. Litt. Zeit. Suppl. 1787. No, ip. p, 148. 



