. Zoology of Egypt. TEIONYX TEIUNGLIS. 33 specimens, but obscure or obsolete in adults ; margin of fleshy disk yellowish; undersurface white, but the posterior margin of the fleshy disk marked with dusky. It attains to a metre in length 1. Common in the Nile in Lower and Upper Egypt, and, according to James Burton 2,present in the lakes in the Wadi Natrun. In the month of April it deposits from 50 to 60 eggs on the sandbanks, where theyare hatched by the heat of the sun. The Arabs say that the Nile turtle searches for the eggs of the crocodile, and that itscratches them out of the sand and dev
. Zoology of Egypt. TEIONYX TEIUNGLIS. 33 specimens, but obscure or obsolete in adults ; margin of fleshy disk yellowish; undersurface white, but the posterior margin of the fleshy disk marked with dusky. It attains to a metre in length 1. Common in the Nile in Lower and Upper Egypt, and, according to James Burton 2,present in the lakes in the Wadi Natrun. In the month of April it deposits from 50 to 60 eggs on the sandbanks, where theyare hatched by the heat of the sun. The Arabs say that the Nile turtle searches for the eggs of the crocodile, and that itscratches them out of the sand and devours them. Maillet3, however, who was anexcellent observer, did not credit the existence of this habit. Sonnini4, on the otherhand, not only believed in it, but has stated that the turtle devoured the newlyhatched young of the crocodile ; and James Burton 5 has recorded that it is not so muchthe ichneumon as the Nile turtle that destroys the young of the crocodile. This maybe possible, but that so thoroughly an aqua
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