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T e s t u D o grasca. African Tortoije. Shell a greeniih yellow ; 
the ^ales on the back marked irregularly in the difk and edge, 
and the fide ones obliquely with black; down the belly are two 
broad black ftripes: tail fhort: no toes; five claws to the fore feet, 
four to the hind. 
Inhabits Africa: feeds on vegetables: moves (lowly, partly 
owing to the fide bend of the fore legs: at the approach of 
winter buries itfelf in the earth, where it pafies that feafon in a 
torpid date: its flefli is reckoned more palatable than the Turlies 
o( the Mediterranean. 
