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CHELONIADv'E. TURTLES. 
CORIACEOUS TURTLE. Testudo coriacea. Tarlon’s 
Lin., vol. 1. Coriudo cor. Fleming’s Brit. An., p. 140. 
Spliargis cor. Jenyns’ Man.,p. 290. Bell’s Br. Reptiles, 
p. 11. 
The occurrence of any of the Turtles in the British seas 
's so rare, that it seems proper to note every instance 
of it ; even where as in the instance presently to lie given, 
an opportunity has not been afforded of examining the 
specimen. The following paragraph is extracted from 
the Falmouth Packet Newspaper, of the date o! August 
10, 1039. “Penzance. On Saturday last at about 7 
o’clock in the evening, as the Trinity buoy yacht was 
c oniing into the hay front the Wolf Lock, something 
Was observed about two miles from Penherth cote floating 
°n the water, which appeared to he a boat, bottom up. 
They bore away towards it, and discovered it to he an 
immense Turtle, They manned their boat, and pursued it 
more than an hour, during which it dived and rose to the 
Surface several times. They were within a boats length ot 
it twice, but it eluded all their attempts to take it. 1 lir.y 
Report it as the largest they ever saw. The species ot 
Turtle to which I have referred this announcement, was 
long since recorded by Borlase as taken in Cornwall ; who 
Mentions of one of near eight hundred weight. But there 
i® a description of another species, — Chelonia caretta, in 
the 4th vol. N. S., of Loudon’s Magazine ot Natural History, 
I 5 * 136, that was caught in January, 1840, at the mouth of 
the river Tor in Devonshire, and which weighed about 
iwo hundred pounds. 
SPARIDiE. SEA BREAMS. 
°&PH, COUCH’S SEA BREAM. Orphvs Rondelctii. 
Ragellus Rondeletii, C. Zoologist, vol. 1, p. 81. 
The Sparoid fishes are found to hear so considerable a 
^semblance to each other in form and colour, and until 
p e, y recent limes, have been so inadequately represented in 
'Sitres, most of which have been taken from dried skins 
prepared specimens, in which all the distinguishing maiks 
rj i life, and separation from one another have been lost that 
need not wooder if we occasionally find the synonyms 
’"'sapplied, the references to ancient authors misplaced, 
a hd certain species rediscovered, that have a better title to 
a designation than others which tor a time have been per- 
mitted to bear it. Another fertile source of error arises 
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