AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. i.Teftudo. 645 
Inhabits favantias u^/Sjuth America. 
■tlead flat, 3-corncred ; neck long, much wrinkled ; has a great 
refemblance to T. Icorpioides, 
C. Peet clavate, clawed ; JhcH convex, joined to the chejl 
by bony fommiJ]ures, Land Tortoifes. 
Feet fubdigitate ; lliel! round-heart- fliaped, the margin ir- 
regularly fcooped. 
Inhabits Virginia : Ibmething larger than a turkey’s egg. 
Shell palifh dufky, covered with 6-fided rough fcales ; tail 
fhorter than the feet ; feet like an elepha.nt’s, 5 — 4 clawed, 
toes not very diftinft. 
Feet fubdigitate ; fhell gibbous behind, lateral margin very 
obtufe ; fcutcls flattilh. 
Inhabits Africa and Sardinia ; the Greeks are very fond of its 
flelh and eggs, and drink its blood ; the male when irritated 
funs and butts its head againfl a ftonc ; hides under ground 
in September and emerges in February; lays 4 — 5 white 
eggs in holes which it digs in warm funny places, they are 
about the ftze of a pigeon’s, and the young come forth after 
the equinoflial rains not larger than a walnut. 
Body tailed, 6i inches long, 4 pounds weight ; hindfeet 4-toed, 
fore generally 5, fometimes 4 ; Jhell oval, very entire at the 
margin ; plate very convex, and with the fkin variegated 
black and yellow. 
F eet digitate ; Ihell gibbous ; the 4 anterior fcutels of the 
back carinate ; cheft entire. 
Inhabits warm regions. 
Shell oval ; all the fcutels elevated, flat above with yellow 
ftripes running from a centre in a ftellate manner. 
Inhabits Dalmatia, fouthern Ruffia, Afia and South America, 
Tail fhort ; feet all cleft, the fore 5-toed, the hind 4, all with 
claws ; fhell frequently a foot and a half long, very gibbous 
with elevated ftutels yellow in the middle, hexagonal 
llriate towards the circumference ; chtji behind (harply 
notched. 
Feet digitate ; fhell oval, fmooth, fpeckled with numerous 
yellow dots. 
Inhabits 
