TESTUDO LONGICOLLIS
THE LONG-NECKED TORTOISE
CHARACTERS GENERICUS.
Corpus tetrapodum, caudatum, teita obtebm. 0s mandibulis nudis, edentulis.
Lin. Syft. Not. P. 350.

CHARACTERS SPECIFICUS.
Tehdo ovata glabra, collo longiffirno.

GENERIC CHARACTER
body four-footed, tailed, covered with a fhell. Mouth conflifting of naked toothlefs mandibles.

Specific Character
Smooth ovate Tortoife with extremely long neck.

THE Tortoife here reprefented is a fpecies never before figured or defcribed. The plate expreffes the natural fize of the fpecimen from which the figure was taken. Its colour on the upper parts is a deep olivaceous brown. The fhell is nearly fmooth, but in fome parts bears a refemblance to the grain of common black leather. The head is fmooth. The neck extremely long, and (as it fhould feem) always exferted : its upper furface is marked with oval granulations, which give it an extremely ferpentine appearance. The fore feet are fhort and tetradactylous ; foftly fcaled, and, as it were, pinnated by a continuation of fkin. The hind feet are of a fimilar ftructre, but fomewhat longer and more widely pinnated. The claws on all the feet refemble thofe of birds. The under furface of the animal is of a pale whitifh yellow ; that of the fhell more deeply fo, and ftained at all the junctures with black-brown, fo as to form fo many croffings of that colour. The tail is fo extremely fhort as fcarce to deferve the name, being merely a flight prolongation, or rather rifing of the fkin.