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Show 7 18 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. [Dec. 5, The complete specimen of this Podocnemis in the British Museum has only one small central mental barbule. Fig. 3. Lower surface of shell of Bartlettia pitipii, Gray. 4. The fourth Podocnemis obtained by Mr. E. Bartlett was the small species, with its brilliantly yellow-spotted head, which Prof. Troschel has described as Podocnemis unifilis, and which, as already stated, is labelled in the British Museum as the young of P. dumeriliana. Mr. Bartlett met with this Tortoise on the Ucayali near Sarayacu, and believed his specimens to be full-grown. The specimen lately living in the Society's collection agrees very well with one of Mr. Bartlett's specimens in the British Museum. On examining the other specimens in spirits there, I find two small individuals which I believe to belong to the same species. These are both labelled P. expansa. |