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five days. They become so stupefied during this act that the Indians dive 
into the sea, and tie the feet of the turtles without their perceiving it, and 
draw these creatures ashore. I have even done this myself.'* 
He went in quest of the father, and carried him as a gift a turtle, the 
shell of which required two men to lift it — so monstrous in size are the 
turtles in those seas; some of them I have seen and eaten.' 
Eschscholtz appears to have been the first writer actually to 
identify a Philippine turtle. He published in his Atlas in 1835 
a drawing of a turtle from Manila Bay under the name Chelonia 
olivacea. Only a few other writers have recorded species of 
turtles from the Philippine Islands. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
Boettger, Oskar. Aufzahlung der von den Philippinen bekannten Rep- 
tilien und Batrachier. Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 91-134. 
Lists Cuora amboinensis Daudin [= Cyclemys amboinensis (Dau- 
din)], Chitra Indica cumingi Gray (= Pelochelys cantorii) , and three 
marine turtles belonging to the Cheloniidas. 
Boettger, Oskar. Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1890) 34. 
Lists Pelochelys cantorii from the Philippines. 
Boettger, Oskar. Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1890) 43. 
Lists Cyclemys amboinensis from the Philippines. 
Boettger, Oskar. Herpetologische Kenntniss der Calamianen Philippi- 
nische Inseln. Abh. Ber. Konig. Zool. Anthr. Eth. Mus. Dresden 7 
(1894-95) 1-6. 
Lists Cyclemys amboinensis Daudin from Mindoro. 
Boulenger, George Albert. On the herpetological fauna of Palawan and 
Balabac. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VI 14 (1884) 81-90. 
Lists Cyclemys dhor Gray from Palawan and Balabac. 
Boulenger, George Albert. Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocepha- 
lians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (1889) 1-311, pis. 1-6. 
Lists a few Philippine specimens. 
Casto de Elera. Catalogo sistematico de toda la Fauna de Filipinas co- 
nocida hasta el presente, etc. Manila. Vertebrados 1 (1895) 399-407. 
Lists Dermochelys cormcea Linnaeus, Platysternum megacephalum, 
Callagur picta Gray, Ocadia sinensis Gray, Damonia reevesii Gray, 
Bellia crassicola Gray, Nicoria spengleri Gray, Cyclemys trifasciata 
Gray, C. amboinensis Daudin, C. flavomarginata Gray, C. platynota 
Gray, Chelone mydas Linnaeus, C. imbricata Strauch, Thalassochelys 
caretta Linnaeus, Trionyx subplanus Geoffrey, T. sinensis Wiegmann, 
Pelochelys cantorii Gray, and Chitra indica Gray. Some of these 
species, certainly Cyclemys amboinensis, Pelochelys cantorii, and the 
four sea turtles, occur in the Islands; but I do not know of authentic 
preserved specimens of the other species here listed. 
‘ Relation of the Filipinas Islands, Miguel de Loarca. Translated by 
Blair and Robertson, op. cit. 5 (1903) 167. 
' Chirino’s Relation. Translated by Blair and Robertson, op. cit. 1 3 
(1904) 211. 
