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SIR PETER EAI)E ON TORTOISES. 
rejected a genuine Norfolk-killed specimen of what proved to be 
the Siberian form of the Pectoral Sandpiper. With this opinion 
Mr. Peeve, who is in a better position to appreciate the circum- 
stances of the case than any other person now living, entirely 
concurs. It seems highly probable therefore, if not an absolute 
certainty, that Trim /a acuminata has been obtained twice in the 
county of Norfolk, and that the Norwich Museum possesses the 
earliest example. This bird was exhibited with the recently killed 
specimen at the meeting of the Zoological Society of London, on 
the 15th November, 1892. 
II. 
A FUKTHEP NOTE UPON TORTOISES. 
By Sir Peter Eade, M.D. 
Read 29th November, 1892. 
In the year 1886 I read before this Society a paper in which 
1 recorded some of the observed habits and peculiarities of a pair 
of Tortoises which I had then kept in my garden for three and 
four years respectively. This paper was afterwards published in 
our Society’s ‘Transactions’ (vol. iv. p. 316), and will probably be 
remembered by some of our members. 
I would like this evening to say a few further words upon these 
creatures, which are still living, and in my possession, — more 
particularly with reference to their rate of growth and increase. 
The two Tortoises have now been in my possession ten and nine 
years respectively. Six years ago I reported to this Society that 
they measured, the one 7i- and the other 7 inches in length. Now 
at the end of six further years their antero-posterior measurements 
are 9£ and 9 inches respectively — the measurements being made 
from before backwards over the convex surface of the carapace. 
They have therefore, each of them, thus measured, increased exactly 
2 inches in length in the last six years, or at the rate of exactly 
one-third of an inch per year. 
