AFRICAN TORTOISE. 
The African Tortoise, which is the figure 
we have deHneated, was kept many years in 
the garden belonging to the College of Phyfi- 
cians, London. 
It is the Testudo Pusilla of LinnSfeus, and 
was imported from Santa Cruzj in West Bar- 
baryi 
This species is thus accutately described by 
the ingenious Edwards — 
' The irides are of a reddish hazel colour ; 
the lips are hard and corneous ; the head is 
covered with yellowish scales ; the neck, hin~ 
der legs, and tail, are covered with a flexible 
skin. of a dull flesh-colour; and the fore legs, 
which are partly exposed when the head is 
drawn in, have yellow scales on their outfides. 
The shell is round, pretty prominent on the 
upper side^ and flat underneath : it is divided 
into many compartments, or separate scales, 
with furrows or creases all round, lessening 
one 'within another to the middle of each 
^calCi The shell is of a yellowish colour, 
clouded with large and small irregular dusky 
or 
