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pearance hasten to devour them; whilst those that have escaped their terrestrial persecutors by getting into the sea, have to encounter a host of voracious fishes and legions of ambushed crocodiles."[1]

Genus Chelone. (Brongn.)

If we consider the Green Turtle, the Loggerhead, and the Hawksbill, as constituting but so

HEAD OF GREEN TURTLE.

many species of a single genus, the characters of that genus will be the same as those already

  1. Penny Cyclop., xxv. 76.