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after these seasonal absences, resumes his customary 
walks, and comes and takes his food as formerly, and 
seeks those whom he affects, that he may be fed, and 
fondled, and petted as heretofore. He seems sensitive 
to the successive strokes of the hand upon the shell ; 
for on every succeeding passage of the hand over his 
back, he extends more and more his head, until 
he stretches it at full, when he remains with it 
lengthened out, and eyes the person who caresses 
him with evident pleasure and satisfaction. The 
sensation in this instance is most probably electric, 
and must be referred to the delicacy of feeling which 
renders him so restless and stirring whenever rain 
threatens. His food is altogether vegetable, — pieces 
of potatoe {batatas), and yam, the peelings of fruit, 
and succulent leaves. He is as frequently the rough 
playmate of the children as the fondled pet of 
gentler hands ; but he is alike reconciled to either 
notice, and never seems inclined for any other so- 
ciety, at least during his seasonal reappearance in the 
house, than the inmates of his accustomed home. 
He has been in the possession of Mr. Millar now 
twelve years.” 
If the species naturalized in Jamaica was intro- 
duced from South America, it is quite possible that 
it may be this same Kinixys Homeana, since this is 
common to the continent and the Caribbean chain. 
There are specimens in the British Museum, which 
were sent from Demcrara. 
MM. Dumeril and Bibron refer the “ Hicatee” 
of Browne to Testudo tahulata, which they attribute 
to tropical America and the Greater Antilles, citing 
