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Show 744 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN T H E MENAGERIE. [Dec. 5, general colour, and by the very different form of the head-In T. tabulata the frontal or fronto-nasal shield is divided by a median line ; in T. carbonaria it is entire. This at least is the case with our specimens, just as Dumeril and Bibron have remarked. Our two specimens of Testudo carbonaria (purchased February 19, 1869) were said to have been received from Surinam. They were entered in the register as Testudo tabulata. Of T. tabulata vera one example, purchased Dec. 16, 1870, was obtained on the island of Marajo, Lower Amazon. Mr. E. Bartlett has leut me others for comparison, one of which he obtained in Eastern Peru, where, he tells me, it is the only Land-Tortoise known to occur. 39. TESTUDO ARGENTINA, Sclater. In my notes on the Tortoises in the Society's Gardens named Testudo chilensis by Dr. Gray, which were published in the ' Proceedings' for 1870 (p. 667)*, I showed the improbability of these animals being really natives of Chili, where, according to all the best authorities, no species of Testudinata are known to exist; and in some further remarks on the same subject in the 'Annals of Natural History'f I suggested the alternative name Testudo aryentina for this species, in case m y views should turn out to be correct. Dr. Philippi's letter on the question, stating that the so-called Chilian Tortoises had been obtained from the vicinity of Mendoza, has been already read to the Society J. Since then I have also made inquiries on the same subject of Mr. Weisshaupt, who himself brought the Tortoises in question to England, and has recently visited us again with a second collection of animals. Mr. Weisshaupt informs me that he procured these Tortoises himself during his expedition to Mendoza; so that there can be no longer any doubt on the subject*^. Under these circumstances Testudo argentina will be the proper name for the species ||. 40. TERRAPENE CARINATA (Linn.). In the autumn of last year we received three living examples of this Tortoise from Massachusetts, U.S.A., and four from Mexico. All the Mexican specimens had but three claws on the hind feet, and belonged therefore to Onychotria mexicana, Gray ( = Cistudo triun-guis, Agassiz). Dr. Straueh, however, contends that this difference is not even specific (Verth. d. Schildkr. p. 45)-a point which I cannot consider yet quite decided. * In these notes, for Testudo stellata in three places read Testudo sulcata, as is obvious from the context. t Ann. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 471. t See antea, p. 480. § I may add that Mr. Weisshaupt expressly denied ever having given the information regarding these Tortoises quoted by Dr. Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist. Jan. 1871, p. 18). Moreover, as Santiago is not on the coast of Chili, but high in the Andes, and some sixty miles from the Pacific, the circumstances there stated are incorrect on the face of them. || See the rules of the Stricklandian code of nomenclature. |