The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . i BAURS BOX TURTLE, Cisludo banri Confined to Georgia and Florida where it inhabits the dry pine woods. The close-set, radiating bands on the upper shell are distinctly greenish t k. = x. .£rt S | O to a 1 .•3 3XI -3 —5 a 5 3- y> H 2 -aaa .9 CHAPTER VII: THE TORTOISES Strictly Terrestrial Chelonians. Represented in North America by Three Species THE greater number of the true Tortoises inhabit the Old
The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . i BAURS BOX TURTLE, Cisludo banri Confined to Georgia and Florida where it inhabits the dry pine woods. The close-set, radiating bands on the upper shell are distinctly greenish t k. = x. .£rt S | O to a 1 .•3 3XI -3 —5 a 5 3- y> H 2 -aaa .9 CHAPTER VII: THE TORTOISES Strictly Terrestrial Chelonians. Represented in North America by Three Species THE greater number of the true Tortoises inhabit the OldWorld. They comprise four very closely allied genera. Thelargest genus is Testudo, which is made up of about thirty-eightspecies. All of the New World species belong to this occur in North America proper (in the extreme southernportions of the United States); three inhabit Mexico, CentralAmerica and northern South America, and a number are con-fined to the Galapagos Islands. The latter are huge tortoises,whose generations are supposed to have survived the Age ofGiant Reptiles. The Tortoises are easily distinguished from the turtles, bythe club-shaped feet of the former, in place of the webbed feetof the latter, and the high, dome-like shell. The skin is dryand wrinkled. Their method of placing the hind feet, whenwalking, and the peculiar formation of th
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