. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE LETTERED TORTOISE. 9 carapace the plates are marked with a number of radiating triangular spots, and on the plates which edge the shell there are lines of black. Below, the yellow generally takes a more omnge tint, and is diversified with black marks round its edge. ^A^::^^4;?^^!^, -j-^c^. —S^^^.^aOfe THE eXXIS—I^xie aiucJmoidea. We now come to a group of Tortoises called Terrapins. These creatures are inhabitants of the water, and are mostly found in rivers. They are carnivorou
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE LETTERED TORTOISE. 9 carapace the plates are marked with a number of radiating triangular spots, and on the plates which edge the shell there are lines of black. Below, the yellow generally takes a more omnge tint, and is diversified with black marks round its edge. ^A^::^^4;?^^!^, -j-^c^. —S^^^.^aOfe THE eXXIS—I^xie aiucJmoidea. We now come to a group of Tortoises called Terrapins. These creatures are inhabitants of the water, and are mostly found in rivers. They are carnivorous in their diet, and take their food while in the water. They may be known by their flattened heads, covered with skin, sometimes hard, but often of a soft consistency, and their broad feet with the toes webbed as far as the claws. The Lettered Tortoise is, together with its companion, an American species of the large genus Emys, examples of which are found in various jjortions of the world, and of which nearly fifty species are known to zoologists. All these creatures have their heads covered with a thin but hard skin. The Lettered Terrajjin is very common in JSTorthern America, nnd is found in the rivers, ponds, lakes, or even the marshy grounds, where it can obtain an abundant supply of food. It is fond of reptiles, and causes great destruction among the frogs in their earlier stages of existence. It also has a great liking for worms, and, like the green crab of our own coasts, is very apt to take the fisherman's bait, and exasperates him greatly by making him pull up nothing but a little Tortoise when he thought he had caught a fine fish. Regular anglers, therefore, bear an intense hatred to this Tortoise. It is easily kept in captivity, and will then feed on many substances, preferring those of an animal nature, and being very fond of various reptiles. It will also eat vegetable substances, and one of these Tortoises was fond of purslain {Porttolacea oleracea). In colo
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