TORTOISE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER* 
Body covered either with a horny or coriaceous integument. 
Feet like fins. 
Tail very short. 
Testudo Gr^ca. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
T. pedibus subdigitatis, testa postice gibba ; 
margine lateral! obtusissimo, scutellis pla- 
niusculis. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 1043. 
The toes hardly to be seen; shell very gibbous 
behind, having a thick margin, with flat- 
fish smooth plates. 
Testudo Gr^eca. Testa hemispherica, seu- 
tellis disci subconvexis, flavis, nigro cinctis, 
tnargine laterali obtuso postice gibbo. 
Schoepf. Hist. Test. p. 38. pi. 8 . 9 . 
Testudo terrestris vulgaris. Raj. Quadr. 243. 
Common Tortoise. Shaiv Gen. Zool. 3. p. 9 . pi. 1 . 
This is the small species which we sometimes 
meet with in a domesticated state. It arrives at a 
great age., even beyond the period of a century. 
One of them introduced into the archiepiscopal gar- 
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