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specimens, in particular, from Cayenne and Guada- 
loupe. Spix and the Prince Maximilian found this 
species in Brazil, in the forests bordering the 
Amazon. 
Testudo carhonaria, a species closely allied to ta- 
hulata, is assigned by the learned French herpeto- 
logists (I know not on what authority) to Jamaica, 
as well as to Brazil, Cayenne, and Chili. 
In Dr. Robinson’s MSS. I found the following 
brief notes of Tortoises (Hicatees) which he pro- 
cured in Jamaica, but whether he considered the 
species indigenous or not, does not appear. — One 
of these Land Turtles laid two eggs, an egg each 
day successively, on board the ‘ Friendship,’ on my 
passage to England. The second-laid egg had an 
indenture, which makes me conjecture they are soft 
immediately after expulsion.^ They are elliptical, 
and about one inch long.” 
A Land Turtle had ten full-formed eggs, and ten 
small [in the ovary] when it died; and had laid two 
some days before, each of the eggs being indented.” 
THE AGUA TOAD. 
About the latter part of the year 1846, Mr. Hill’s 
attention was directed to some hitherto unrecognized 
tenants of the lowland ponds in the vicinity of 
Spanish Town. No native species of Frog or Toad 
had been discovered in Jamaica, with the exception 
of the Tree-frogs {Hyladce), which have been al- 
ready noticed, when a Batrachian was brought to 
* I would beg the reader’s reference to my own observations on 
the eggs of Thecadactylus Icevis, in page 184. of this volume. 
