SMALL MUD TORTOISE. 
Of this Small Mud Tortoise, as it is deno- 
sminated by Edwards, that ingenious natural 
list, in his celebrated Gleanings, has given 
three views ; all drawn, and etched, on the 
copper-plate, immediately from life, and of 
the natural size. 
The description which he gives of this cu- 
rious little animal, is as follows — 
" The head, all round the jaws and eyes, is 
of a reddish-yellow colour. The top of the 
head, the throat, and the neck, are dusky. 
The fore feet have each of them five toes, 
with sharp nails: the hinder feet have only 
four. I take this Tortoise to be of the am- 
phibious kind, it having fin-like appendages to 
ill the feet. The legs and feet are covered 
with a rough dusky skin. The upper side of 
the shell is divided into thirteen parts, or 
scales, all of a dusky colour : these are s-^r- 
bounded with smaller scales ; those next the 
IViead and tail of a dusky colour, and those on 
